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Scott County, Indiana

Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

3historic places

—earliest paper

1820formed

24,384pop. 2020

16cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 3 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1991. Most listings are in or near Scottsburg.

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 Scott titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

1 of 3 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

3 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Scott County Home	Scottsburg	Building	2000
Scottsburg Courthouse Square Historic District	Scottsburg	District	2003
Scottsburg Depot	Scottsburg	Building	1991

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Scott was formed in 1820 (1820-02-01) from Clark, Jackson, Jefferson, Jennings, Washington.

SCOTT created from CLARK, JACKSON, JEFFERSON, JENNINGS, and WASHINGTON.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1820	1840	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
2,334	4,242	7,303	8,343	8,307	7,424	8,978	11,519	14,643	20,422	22,960	24,384

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

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

Cemeteries — 16 of 16 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Bethel Cemetery	38.61239	-85.64815
Bethel Cemetery	38.70107	-85.6544
Bridgewater Cemetery	38.63506	-85.70116
Campbell Cemetery	38.78304	-85.7565
Craig Cemetery	38.70146	-85.79196
Cravens Cemetery	38.6495	-85.75552
Estil Cemetery	38.66368	-85.73789
Everitt Cemetery	38.63447	-85.78491
Harrod Cemetery	38.7794	-85.78241
Hopewell Cemetery	38.64914	-85.73782
Horner Cemetery	38.67783	-85.5944
Lexington Cemetery	38.64969	-85.63399
Mount Pleasant Cemetery	38.70342	-85.86952
Reeves Cemetery	38.63081	-85.70811
Spurgeon Cemetery	38.74492	-85.75262
Whitson Cemetery	38.74283	-85.77885

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

Historical markers

HMdb link

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