Talk:List of counties in Indiana

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Some helpful information on U.S. county lists can be found at WP:COUNTYLISTS. Tom pw (talk) (review) 16:23, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

Sorry for ruining the edit history, but making changes to that table is impossible due to database timeouts, so I had to get creative.Bennyfactor 03:22, 24 August 2007 (UTC) This page must be renamed, as there is actually no list Kostja 15:36, 29 Septembert 2007 (UTC)

County Numbers
Most people would probably be more likely to associate with the county numbers used by the Indiana BMV than those used by the Feds, i.e., I'll always associate 79 with Tippecanoe, 3 with Bartholmew, etc. Jmdeur (talk) 20:13, 17 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Agreed. And it isn't just the BMV that uses the county numbers.  All Indiana courts use the same numbers (46C01 for La Porte County Circuit Court etc), as well as various other county government departments.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.104.62.42 (talk) 07:07, 17 February 2012 (UTC)


 * I got tired of coming to this article and not seeing the BMV county numbers here so I've added them using the Template provided and adding a Data5 column. Probably the daunting task of trying to work with the template was preventing people from trying to add this data. I did it in an automated fashion using an expression in vim as shown in this climagic post. By the way, an interesting reference one could cite for the use of county numbers is a 1995 episode of the MTV show Road Rules where they visit Nashville, Indiana and the police officer explains the use of the numbers to determine locality. --Deltaray3 (talk) 16:53, 28 February 2016 (UTC)

St. Joseph County Population
Where did this population figure come from? I can find no reference that lists the population for St. Joseph county near where what it is listed as. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.34.133.138 (talk) 02:28, 22 August 2010 (UTC)


 * I think the population figures need to be updated to reflect the 2010 census. But there also appear to be other errors in the data.  For example, La Porte county's population was showing as 266k, when in fact it is 111k.  I changed this, but the rest of the counties need to be verified.  I'll do it if I find some spare time.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.104.62.42 (talk) 07:10, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

Origin column
This column is sort of haphazard. We don't need to say "Formed from" over and over - the column implies that. Knox County is listed as Original; it came from SOMEWHERE, i.e. it was carved out of the Northwest Territory's Vincennes Tract, which essentially represented a 1742 purchase by France from the Piankeshaw Indians. Saying a county was formed from 'Unorganized' or 'Non-county land' is superfluous - just leave the column blank. What is really meant there is that the county was formed from land resulting from an Indian Removal Act or purchase by Treaty, and we should list the Treaty, like "St. Mary's New Purchase" for the Treaty of St. Mary's (1818). A few entries are just plain wrong; whatever source was used (probably a genealogy website) is dubious. Genealogy websites are notorious; they're not interested in history and aren't scholarly about citing their sources.

Sbalfour (talk) 17:07, 3 January 2019 (UTC)