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Ripley County, Indiana

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—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
17historic places
—earliest paper
1816formed
28,995pop. 2020
56cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 17 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1979. Most listings are in or near Versailles, Napoleon, Friendship.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Indiana is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Ripley titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

12 of 17 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

17 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Busching Covered BridgeVersaillesStructure2019
Central Batesville Historic DistrictBatesvilleDistrict2011
Central HouseNapoleonBuilding1982
Collin's Ford BridgeNew MarionStructure1996
Conwell, Elias, HouseNapoleonBuilding1979
Friendship Stone Arch BridgeFriendshipStructure2019
Marble Creek BridgeSan JacintoStructure1996
Milan Masonic Lodge No. 31MilanBuilding2013
Old TimbersMadisonBuilding1996
Otter Creek Covered BridgeHoltonStructure2019
Rand, John Linsey, HouseFriendshipBuilding1994
Ripley County CourthouseVersaillesBuilding2009
Straber Ford BridgeOsgoodBuilding2009
Taylor, Fernando G., HouseVersaillesBuilding1986
Tyson United Methodist ChurchVersaillesBuilding1994
Versailles Courthouse Square Historic DistrictVersaillesDistrict2024
Versailles School and Tyson AuditoriumVersaillesBuilding2006

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Ripley was formed in 1816 (1816-12-27) from Dearborn, Jefferson.

RIPLEY created from DEARBORN and JEFFERSON.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Ripley County population from 1820 to 2020 (Census historical series).

29k15k1,8221820184018801920196020002020
182018401860188019001920194019501960198020002020
1,82210,39219,05421,62719,88118,69418,89818,76320,64124,39826,52328,995

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

56 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 56 of 56 listed
NameLatLon
Adams Cemetery39.22155-85.17829
Akers and Friendship Cemetery38.97568-85.14925
Basset Cemetery38.95284-85.21968
Beebe Cemetery38.94473-85.23529
Bethel Cemetery39.03806-85.21394
Blair Cemetery39.00452-85.19378
Booher Cemetery39.2243-85.32957
Bradshaw Cemetery39.09774-85.2515
Buchanan Cemetery38.91606-85.27961
Concord Cemetery38.93699-85.29162
Connell Cemetery38.98492-85.16152
County Farm Cemetery38.99351-85.31687
Daubenheyer Cemetery38.98848-85.29733
Delaware Cemetery39.15034-85.22047
Derringer Cemetery38.98588-85.2744
Franklin Church Cemetery39.1775-85.11274
Gordon Cemetery38.9531-85.26606
Green Cemetery39.0311-85.1787
Greendale Cemetery39.12509-85.30697
Hamilton Cemetery38.93016-85.36358
Henderson Cemetery39.05306-85.20351
Holman Cemetery39.02038-85.28316
Holton West Cemetery39.06914-85.40035
Hyatt Cemetery38.96894-85.27551
Klotzsche Family Cemetery38.98088-85.26856
Little Memory Church Cemetery39.24356-85.15717
Marble Corner Cemetery39.05728-85.24772
Myers Cemetery38.93594-85.24378
New Craven Cemetery39.10415-85.1335
Nicholson Cemetery38.95161-85.21309
OBrien Cemetery39.07496-85.35156
Old Ditch Cemetery38.92155-85.30803
Old Hopewell Cemetery39.09641-85.38624
Old Salem Cemetery39.22032-85.27718
Old Westfork Cemetery38.92178-85.34377
Otter Village Cemetery39.12172-85.34878
Overturf Cemetery38.91556-85.3135
Perseverance Cemetery39.13311-85.26599
Prattsburg Cemetery39.16064-85.18539
Ransom Cemetery39.15071-85.11309
Risk Cemetery38.92341-85.25602
Saint Charles Cemetery39.10556-85.13062
Saint Louis Cemetery39.29506-85.22901
Saint Maurice Cemetery39.20734-85.33478
Saint Pauls Cemetery39.28216-85.23638
Saint Pauls Church Cemetery38.98884-85.22019
Saint Peters Cemetery38.99038-85.21511
Saint Peters Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery38.99851-85.15986
Shelby Cemetery38.97221-85.30053
Sheppard Cemetery39.01283-85.37079
Whitham Cemetery38.91648-85.27776
Wilson Cemetery38.96061-85.14273
Wilson Family Cemetery39.04192-85.20428
Winkler Cemetery38.95308-85.224
Wise Cemetery38.94783-85.2894
Young Cemetery38.94189-85.21875

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

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