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In the numbering of the thirty-six sections which constitute a town- ship, the surveyor begins with Section 1 in the northeast corner of the township, runs west to 6, numbers the section below 6 as Section 7, runs east to 12, numbers back on the third tier of sections to 18, and so on, until he ends with Section 36 in the southeast corner.
It should be stated that all sections do not contain exactly 640 acres, some containing more and some less, but the government recog- nizes no variation, and sells or grants sections as containing 640 acres "more or less." The variation in the size of congressional townships is due to two facts : first, surveyors frequently make mistakes ; secondly, the fact that meridians converge as they run north causes every town- ship to vary more or less from the 23,040 acres, which a perfect town- ship would contain. In order to make the townships as nearly perfect as possible, so-called correction lines are run at intervals, and usually as
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follows: North of the base line at intervals of 24 miles; south of the base line at intervals of 30 miles; both east and west of the principal meridian, the correction lines are usually established every 48 miles. All correction lines are accurately established by astronomical obser- vations, and succeeding surveys are then based upon them.
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Alphabetical List of Counties, With Key Number
67 Adams
147 Franklin
159 Lawrence
121 Rush
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45 Fulton
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171 Scott
143 Bartholomew
189 Gibson
109 Marion
123 Shelby
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33 Marshall
197 Spencer
71 Blackford
137 Greene
161 Martin
31 Starke
95 Boone
93 Hamilton
59 Miami
17 Steuben
141 Brown
111 Hancock
139 Monroe
23 St. Joseph
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181 Harrison
97 Montgomery
135 Sullivan
57 Cass
107 Hendricks
127 Morgan
175 Switzerland
177 Clark
113 Henry
51 Newton
79 Tippecanoe
131 Clay
75 Howard
37 Noble
85 Tipton
83 Clinton
63 Huntington
151 Ohio
117 Union
183 Crawford
157 Jackson
193 Vanderburg
163 Daviess
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103 Parke
149 Dearborn
69 Jay
133 Vigo
145 Decatur
173 Jefferson
187 Pike
81 Warren
89 Delaware
165 Knox
169 Washington
185 Dubois
35 Kosciusko
115 Wayne
21 Elkhart
19 Lagrange
105 Putnam
65 Wells
119 Fayette
29 Lake
91 Randolph
55 White
179 Floyd
25 Laporte
153 Ripley
43 Whitley
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Counties in Numerical Order According to Key Numbers
17 Steuben
63 Huntington
109 Marion
155 Jennings 157 Jackson
19 Lagrange
67 Adams
113 Henry
159 Lawrence
21 Elkhart
69 Jay
115 Wayne
161 Martin
23 St. Joseph
71 Blackford
117 Union
163 Daviess
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73 Grant
119 Fayette
165 Knox
27 Porter
75 Howard
121 Rush
167 Orange
29 Lake
77 Carroll
123 Shelby
169 Washington
31 Starke
125 Johnson
171 Scott
33 Marshall
79 Tippecanoe
127 Morgan
173 Jefferson
35 Kosciusko
83 Clinton
129 Owen
175 Switzerland
37 Noble
85 Tipton
133 Vigo
179 Floyd
41 Allen
89 Delaware
137 Greene
183 Crawford
45 Fulton
91 Randolph
139 Monroe
185 Dubois
47 Pulaski
93 Hamilton
141 Brown
187 Pike
49 Jasper
97 Montgomery
145 Decatur
191 Posey
53 Benton
147 Franklin
193 Vanderburg
55 White
149 Dearborn
195 Warrick
57 Cass
151 Ohio
197 Spencer
59 Miami
107 Hendricks
153 Ripley
199 Perry
61 Wabash
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Explanation
White Face Figures on the margin of the sectional county maps indicate the page number of the adjoining county.
Automobile Routes are indicated by red lines, the heavy lines indicating the trunk or main highways, while improved roads are indicated by lighter red lines. Black parallel lines indicate ordinary roads.
Red Letters along counboundaries show connecting point of roads, which winable the traveler, at a glance, to connect with the ne road in the adjoining county. For example, if tltraveler leaves Hamilton county, Page 93, on road med "X," he will enter the adjoining county, Madison, P; 87, on road marked with the same letter.
189 Gibson
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199 Perry
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167 Orange
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STEUBEN COUNTY.
Steuben county, named in honor of Baron Steuben, of Revolutionary War fame, was organized January 14, 1837, with its county seat at Angola, The county is in the extreme northeastern corner of the state, and contains a large number of beautiful lakes. It has a land area of 195,200 acres, most of which can he cultivated. The assessed valuation of the county in 1914 was $9,161,425. It has 91 schools, 113 teachers and 2,973 pupils. There are 11 banks in the county. The population in 1860 was 10,374; in 1880 it was 14,645; in 1900 it was 15,219; in 1910 it dropped to 14,274.
Angola, the county seat, a city of 3,200, is located in the center of the county on the L. S. & M. S. and St. J. V. railroads. It has three banks, two newspapers, three public school buildings, five churches and a new public library. Its indus- tries include a brick and tile works, flouring mill, gas engine factory, saw mill. fertilizer factory, auto jack factory, tent and awning factory, bottling works, machine and foundry works, monument factory, two cigar factories, ice cream factory, poultry shippers' supplies factory and two bakeries. The city is the seat of the Tri-State College, a non-sectarian institution, with an annual enroll- ment of over a thousand students. The city has electric lights, water works. sewage system and several miles of paved streets.
The other incorporated towns in the county are Fremont, Hudson and Ash- ley, part of the latter town being in Dekalb county. The unincorporated villages include Hamilton, Flint, Pleasant Lake, Steubenville, Orland, Nevada Mills, Hel- mer, Metz, Ellis, Crooked Lake, Paltytown, Ray and Salem Center. Several of these villages have banks and are flourishing trading centers.
Steuben county is becoming known as one of the best smnmier resort counties in the state. There are hundreds of summer cottages around lakes James, Crooked, George, Cedar, Fish and Pleasant. An electric line runs out from Angola to lake James and Crooked lake, while the St. Joe Valley Ilne runs an electric motor car on its road for the accommodation of those wishing to visit the lakes along its line.
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LAGRANGE COUNTY.
Lagrange county, named after the country home of Lafayette in France, was organized February 2, 1832, with its first county seat at Lima. The county is in the lake region and there is a considerable amount of its land area of 247,680 acres which has had to be drained before it was suitable for cultivation. The cement industry has come to the front in the county within the past few years, Stroh being the center of the largest output. The assessed valuation of the county in 1914 was $12,351.810. There are 81 schools, 133 teachers and 3,422 pupils. It has nine banks. The county had a population of 11,366 in 1860 and reached its greatest population in 1880, when it had 15,630 inhabitants. Since that year it has gradually decreased each decade, the 1910 census returning 15,148 inhabitants.
Lagrange became the county seat as the result of the legislative act of Feb- ruary 13, 1840, but the records were not removed from Lima until January, 1841. Lagrange has a population of 1,800 and is located on the G. R. & I. and St. J. V. railroads, near the center of the county. It has two banks, two uewspapers, elec- tric lights, water works and paved streets.
Howe, a town on the G. R. & I., in the northeru part of the county, is the seat of Howe Military Academy, a school with a national reputation. The town has a bank, newspaper, electric lights, a fiue school building and three churches.
Other towns in the county include Wolcottville. South Milford, Topeka, Eddy, Valentine, Stroh, Mongo, Shipshewana, Brighton, Scott, Greenfield Mills, Seybert, Ontario and Shrock.
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ELKHART COUNTY.
Elkhart county was organized January 29, 1830, its name being derived from an island in the St. Joseph river which had a fancied resemblance to an elk's head. It has a land area of 295,680 acres, all of which lies in the basin of the St. Joseph river. The county had an assessed valuation in 1914 of $31,316,775. There are 131 schools, 303 teachers and 9,733 pupils. The county has 16 banks. The county has shown a substantial increase in population each decade, having increased from 20,986 in 1860 to 49,008 in 1910.
The first couuty seat was located at Dunlap, an embryonic town about five miles northwest of Goshen, but it was changed to Goshen a year later. Goshen is located about the center of the county, on the N. Y. C. and C., C., C. & St. L. railroads. The C., S., B. & N. and W. I. electric lines also pass through the county seat. The city has four banks, two daily and weekly newspapers, public library, city hospital and excellent schools and churches. Goshen College, a Mennonite institution, is located in the county seat. The chief manufactured products are rubber goods, churns, ladders, furniture, underwear, flour, hydraulic presses and mechanical uovelties. It has all the improvements of the modern city-electric lights, water works, paved streets, etc.
Elkhart, with a population of 22,000, is about twice as large as Goshen, the county seat. It is on the St. Joseph river, the C., C., C. & St. L., St. J., V. and I. S. & M. S. railroads, and is an important manufacturing center. It has four banks, two newspapers, street car system, and all modern city improvements.
The other urban centers of the county are Nappanee, Benton, Millersburg, Waterford Mills, New Paris, Middlebury, Vistula, Bristol, Dunlap, Foraker and Wakarusa. Of these towns the most important is Nappanee, with a population of 3,000. It has paved streets, municipal light, water and sewage systems and manu- factures furniture, flour, kitchen cabinets, art lamps, screens and novelties. It is an important shipping point for onions, peppermint, hemp, grain aud live stock.
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St. Joseph county, named after the St. Joseph river, which in turn was first so called hy the Catholic explorers who discovered it, was organized Jannary 29, 1830, with its first couuty seat at St. Joseph, a town in name ouly which was located a few miles southwest of South Bend. The county is on the Michigan line, in ahont the center of the northern tier of counties. Most of the county drains into the St. Joseph river, although a portion of the southwestern part of the county is iu the basin of the Kankakee river. The county contains fine farming laud and that part of its 294,400 acres which is tilled produces abund- antly. The assessed valuation of the county in 1914 was $52,169,250. It has 137 schools, 500 teachers and 14,878 pupils. There are 18 hanks. The popnla- tiou of the county in 1860 was 18.455 and each succeeding census has shown a heavy increase in population, the 1910 census returning 84,312 inhabitants, an increase of nearly 34,000 from 1900.
South Bend, the county seat, was so chosen in May, 1831. It had a popnla- tion of 52,684 in 1910, and an estimated population of 67,030 in 1916. It has ten hanks, two daily papers, street car system, 19 public schools aud 12 parochial school buildings, public library, Y. M. C. A, building, 67 churches, and all the improvements of the modern city. It is also the seat of Notre Dame University and St. Mary's Academy, Catholic institutions with national reputations. Its manufactured products include automobiles, watches, carriages, buggies and wagons, sewing machines, plows, clover hullers, time switches, glue, mattresses, pianos and organs, telephone equipment, optical goods, shirts, woolens, flour, toilet articles, underwear, sheet metal, screens, auto bodies, hakery products, beer, cigars, cement products and harness.
The other incorporated towns are Mishawaka, River Park, Walkerton, New Carlisle, North Liberty and Lakeville. Mishawaka is a city of 13,000 with all the modern.city improvements. Its products include whiskey, meat packing products, automobiles, plows, woolen goods, pipe organs, beds, woolen boots, toys, cigars, veneers, special machinery, aluminum products and ladders. It is connected with South Bend by an electric line.
The unincorporated villages of the connty include Wyatt, Osceola, Warwick, Webster, Granger, Piue, Woodland, Jinger, Rupe, Rugby, Lydick, Crumstown and Claudville.
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Laporte county was organized February 2, 1832, with its connty seat at Laporte. The county derived its name from the French word meaning portal or eutrance, and applied because the village of Laporte originally stood at the edge of a great forest. The county is located on Lake Michigan and much of its 380,800 acres was originally very low and swampy. Thonsauds of acres have been re- claimed by drainage and bronght nnder cultivation. The assessed valuation of the county in 1914 was $35,717,905. It has 122 schools, 273 teachers and 7,756 pupils. There are 14 banks. The county had a population of 22,919 in 1860 and has rapidly increased in population each decade since that year, the 1910 censns returuing 45,797 inhabitants.
Laporte, the county seat, had a population of 10,525 in 1910, bnt by 1916 it was estimated at 15,000. It is on the L. E. & W., N. Y. C. and Pere Marquette rail- roads, and connected with South Beud, Michigan City, Gary and Chicago with electric lines. The city has five banks, two newspapers, hospital, public library and all the improvements of the modern city. It has no less than thirty manu- facturing plauts, its principal prodnets being woolen goods, pianos, picture frames, farm machinery, furniture, bicycles and dairy products.
Michigan City, with a population of 22,000, is located on Lake Michigan and is reached by the L. E. & W., Monon, M. C. and Pere Marquette railroads, and is connected with cities in all directions with electric lines. It has fonr banks, two newspapers, eight school buildings, hospital, public library, city park, and all the modern city improvements. It has a large number of importaut mannfacturing plants, including the largest car factory in the world. The State Prison, located iu the city, was opened April 5, 1860.
There are no incorporated towns in the county except the county seat and Michigan City. The villages include Nickle Plate, Willvale, Wanatah, Hanna, Union Mills, Tracy, Haskell, Alida, Westville, Oakwood, Rolling Prairie, Stillwell, Kingsbury, Thomaston, Lacrosse, Otis, Merrick, Belfast and Dillou.
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Porter county, named in honor of Admiral David Porter, a hero of the War of 1812, was organized February 7, 1835, with its county seat at Valparaiso, first called Portersville. The county borders on lake Michigan and consequently much of its land area of 265,600 acres is of a swampy character and has had to be drained before it was suitable for cultivation. The assessed valuation of the county in 1914 was $21,903,630. It has 91 schools, 160 teachers and 3,896 pupils. There are eight banks. The population of the county in 1860 was 10,313 and it has shown an increase at each succeeding decade, the 1910 census returning a population of 20,540.
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