Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.
—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
99historic places
—earliest paper
1818formed
180,136pop. 2020
24cemeteries
—CW battlefields
At a glance
Summary
The National Register of Historic Places includes 99 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1966; 1 is also National Historic Landmark. Most listings are in or near Evansville, McCutchanville.
Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.
Vanderburgh County population from 1820 to 2020 (Census historical series).
1820
1840
1860
1880
1900
1920
1940
1950
1960
1980
2000
2020
1,798
6,250
20,552
42,193
71,769
92,293
130,783
160,422
165,794
167,515
171,922
180,136
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
24 cemeteries and 1 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.
Cemeteries — 24 of 24 listed
Name
Lat
Lon
Alexander Memorial Park Cemetery
37.99927
-87.61073
Bethlehem United Church of Christ Cemetery
38.03569
-87.51137
Blue Grass Church Cemetery
38.11516
-87.49914
Campground Cemetery
38.03685
-87.5672
Higinbottom Cemetery
38.04317
-87.66943
Huber Cemetery
38.03366
-87.64346
James Cemetery
37.93746
-87.4932
Locust Hill Cemetery
38.01295
-87.58165
Mesker Park Cemetery
37.99976
-87.61057
Mount Carmel Cemetery
38.03171
-87.57029
Mount Sinai Cemetery
37.99524
-87.61839
Oak Hill Cemetery and Arboretum
37.98615
-87.53474
Oak Ridge Cemetery
38.06763
-87.57697
Oates Memorial Park
37.95004
-87.53835
Park Lawn Cemetery and Mausoleum
37.95636
-87.49013
Richter Cemetery
38.05753
-87.60295
Rose Hill Cemetery
38.0128
-87.5598
Saint Joseph Cemetery
38.00275
-87.61467
Saint Peters Lutheran Church Cemetery
38.05707
-87.64224
Saint Peters United Church of Christ Cemetery
38.04345
-87.57491
Stroud Cemetery
37.8342
-87.64557
Sunset Memorial Gardens Cemetery
38.02973
-87.5279
Trinity Parish Cemetery
38.14494
-87.52739
Tupman Cemetery
37.9937
-87.63476
Historical populated places — 1 of 1
Name
Lat
Lon
Crossroads
38.10199
-87.64585
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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