Jay County, Indiana, United States

Details for Jay County

Name

Jay County

Place Type

County

Located in

Indiana, United States

County Seat

Portland (Wayne Township)

Coordinates

Latitude		40.4344895		40° 26' 04.2" N
Longitude		-84.9777455		84° 58' 39.9" W

Population

21,512

Elevation

276 m

Surrounding Counties

Adams N
Mercer (Ohio) NE
Darke (Ohio) SE
Randolph S
Delaware SW
Blackford W
Wells NW

USGS GNIS FeatureID

450362

Histopolis Place ID

936684397

Updated Apr 15, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Jay County

8 Resources; Select a Cemetery below for additional resources specific to that Cemetery.

Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials [Find A Grave]
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=csr&CScnty=829 (26 Aug 2009)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Indiana > Jay County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Indiana > Jay County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/IN/Jay/ (3 Aug 2010)

Jay County, Indiana IN, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Jay County, Indiana IN, county profile, with sections on demographics, cemeteries, the economy, government, history and politics.
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=5442 (12 Nov 2008)

Jay County, Indiana Cemetery Records [Interment.net]
Cemetery records of Jay County, Indiana
http://www.interment.net/us/in/jay.htm (16 May 2010)

Jay County, Indiana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_County,_Indiana (20 Jun 2010)

(page title not available) [USGenWeb Archives]
http://www.usgwarchives.net/in/jay/jay.html (23 Jan 2010)

Cemeteries in or near Jay County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=5442&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (24 Dec 2008)

The Political Graveyard: Jay County, Ind. [The Political Graveyard]
A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 192,291 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present.
http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/JY.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

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Surveys in Jay County

1 Survey, 4 Ranges, 12 Townships

The Second Principal Meridian survey governs land descriptions in all or part of Jay County. You can navigate to any of the 12 survey townships that overlap Jay County using the navigation tool below.

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Townships of Jay County

12 Townships

Bearcreek	Greene	Jackson	Jefferson
Knox	Madison	Noble	Penn
Pike	Richland	Wabash	Wayne

Cities of Jay County

2 Cities, 4 Towns, 31 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (Unincorporated Place (u.p.) is assumed unless noted)

Antioch	Antiville	Balbec	Bellfountain
Blaine	Bloomfield	Bluff Point	Boundary City
Brice	Bryant (town)	Center	College Corner
Collett	Como	Corkwell	Dunkirk (city)
Fiat	Greene	Jay City	Kitt
Liber	New Corydon	New Mount Pleasant	Noble
Pennville (town)	Pleasant Ridge	Poling	Pony
Portland (city)	Powers	Redkey (town)	Ridertown
Salamonia (town)	Salem	Trinity	West Liberty
Westchester

Cemeteries of Jay County

32 Cemeteries, 1 Alternate Name (*) (Cemetery is assumed unless noted)

Borris	Bost	Claycomb	Daugherty
Flesher	Flower Point	Gravel Hill	Green Park
Hawkins	Hearne	Hillcrest	Hillside
Jaque	Kinsey	Kunce	Liber
Maple Lawn	New Mount Pleasant	New Mt. Pleasant (*)	Old Baptist
Pingrey	Powers	Reed	Sager
Stephens	Stevenson	Stratton	Wentz
West Grove	Whaley	Whicker	Whiteman
Winters

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