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Jasper County is divided into 13 Civil Townships as follows: Barkley, Carpenter,
Gillam, Hanging Grove, Jordan, Kankakee, Keener, Marion, Milroy, Newton,
Union, Walker and Wheatfield.
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Jasper County was organized formally on March 15, 1838.
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Originally, the territory of Jasper included all of the present county of
Newton and most of Benton. Before this time, it was attached to White County.
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Rensselaer wasn't always the County Seat.
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The first County Seat was located at Parish Grove, thirty miles south of
the present seat of justice and five miles southwest of Fowler. This was
chosen because it was near the center of population and for the additional
reason that it is one of the few high and dry spots in the county.
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At the first meeting of the commissioners it was decided to change the location
to the cabin of George W. Spitler, in what is now Iroquois Township, Newton
County, he having been elected County Clerk and refusing to serve unless
this was done. This temporary arrangement was upset by the legislative act
of January 29, 1839, which appointed commissioners to examine the counties
of Jasper and Newton and see whether they should be consolidated.
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Rensselaer (originally called Newton) became the County Seat when the State
Commissioners met in June 1839, and decided upon a consolidation. The original
plat of the newly chosen County Seat was filed June 12, 1839; by 1849 it
had three stores, two physicians, one lawyer and 15 dwelling houses.
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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, 1840.
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Indiana automobile License Plates issued in Jasper County start with the
prefix 37 because it is the thirty-seventh county in alphabetical listing.
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