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Hendricks County is divided into 12 Civil Townships as follows: Brown, Center,
Clay, Eel River, Franklin, Guilford, Liberty, Lincoln, Marion, Middle, Union
and Washington.
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Hendricks County was organized by legislative act December 28, 1823, which
was made effective by formal organization April 21, 1824.
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According to the Indiana Gazetteer (published in 1849), the County
Seat of Hendricks County was named Danville to honor Daniel Bales, one of
the proprietors. This is disputed in the book A Pictorial History of Hendricks
County Indiana, by Linda Balough and Betty Bartley, which was published
in 1999, indicating that Danville was named after traveling Judge William
Wick's brother Dan.
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Danville was first settled in 1825 by Nathan Kirk, Levi Jessup, James L.
Given, James Wood and P. L. Dickens and by 1849 contained a brick
Courthouse, a County Seminary with about sixty students, 125 dwelling houses
and had a population of 500.
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According to the Society of Indiana Pioneers, an individual was a pioneer
of our county if they resided here on or before December 31, 1830.
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Indiana automobile License Plates issued in Hendricks County start with the
prefix 32 because it is the thirty-second county in alphabetical listing.
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