Huntington County Indiana
Population 37,985

Huntington County is divided into 12 Civil Townships as follows: Clear Creek, Dallas, Huntington, Jackson, Jefferson, Lancaster, Polk, Rock Creek, Salamonie, Union, Warren and Wayne. Huntington County was organized effective December 2, 1834 and Captain Elias Murray, then a member of the Legislature, proposed the name. 
Huntington is the County Seat and General Tipton was the original proprietor of the land  in which Captain Murray was one of the first settlers; by 1849 it contained 150 houses and had a population of 700.
The Wabash & Erie Canal cut through our county in 1834 and was a major economic factor in European settlement and early development .
According to the Society of Indiana Pioneers, an individual was a pioneer of our county if they resided here on or before December 31, 1840.
Indiana automobile License Plates issued in Huntington County start with the prefix 35 because it is the thirty-fifth county in alphabetical listing.
Huntington County is a county located in the U.S. state of Indiana. The county seat and largest city is Huntington. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 388 square miles (1,005 km²), of which 383 square miles (991 km²) is land and 5 square miles (14 km²) (1.38%) is water.

Notable natives and former residents:

• J. Danforth Quayle, Vice-President of the United States, U.S. Senator, U.S. Representative
• J. Edward Roush, U.S. Representative, Father of "911 Emergency System"
  

Schools in Huntington County

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