Newton County, Indiana, United States

Details for Newton County

Name

Newton County

Place Type

County

Located in

Indiana, United States

County Seat

Kentland (Jefferson Township)

Coordinates

Latitude		41.0139228		41° 00' 50.1" N
Longitude		-87.4491973		87° 26' 57.1" W

Population

13,551

Elevation

205 m

Surrounding Counties

Lake N
Porter NE
Jasper E
Benton S
Iroquois (Illinois) SW
Kankakee (Illinois) NW

USGS GNIS FeatureID

450376

Histopolis Place ID

127455228

Updated Dec 3, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Newton County

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

Newton County, Indiana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton_County,_Indiana (27 Jul 2010)

Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials [Find A Grave]
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=csr&CScnty=847 (25 Aug 2009)

Cemeteries in or near Newton County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=5597&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (9 Dec 2008)

Newton County, Indiana IN, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Newton 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=5597 (13 Nov 2008)

The Political Graveyard: Newton 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/NE.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

(page title not available) [USGenWeb Archives]
http://www.usgwarchives.net/in/newton/newton.html (24 Jan 2010)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Indiana > Newton County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Indiana > Newton County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/IN/Newton/ (13 Feb 2010)

EveryNameIndex.com - Every Name Index to Counties of Warren, Benton, Jasper & Newton, IN (1883) [everynameindex.com] Added Dec 3, 2011
Compiled by Cathy L. O'Connor, 2008. Original text published by F. A. Battey & Co., 1883, reproduction by Unigraphic, Inc., 1973. This index contains over 20,500 entries.
http://www.everynameindex.com/BentonCoIN.html (2 Dec 2011)

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Surveys in Newton County

1 Survey, 3 Ranges, 12 Townships

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

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Townships of Newton County

10 Townships

Beaver	Colfax	Grant	Iroquois
Jackson	Jefferson	Lake	Lincoln
McClellan	Washington

Cities of Newton County

5 Towns, 14 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (Unincorporated Place (u.p.) is assumed unless noted)

Ade	Beaver City	Brook (town)	Conrad
Effner	Enos	Foresman	Goodland (town)
Kentland (town)	Lake Village	Morocco (town)	Mount Ayr (town)
Newton	Pembroke	Percy Junction	Perkins
Roselawn	Sumava Resorts	Thayer

Cemeteries of Newton County

18 Cemeteries, 3 Alternate Names (*) (Cemetery is assumed unless noted)

Beaver City	Dorne	Fairlawn	Goodland
Kennedy	Lake Village	Morgan	Mount Calvary
Mount Zion	Mt. Calvary (*)	Mt. Zion (*)	Murphy
North Star	Oakland	Pleasant Grove	Porter
Prairie Vine	Roselawn	Russell Chapel	Saint Josephs
St. Josephs (*)

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