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Newton County is divided into 10 Civil Townships as follows: Beaver, Colfax,
Grant, Iroquois, Jackson, Jefferson, Lake, Lincoln, McClellan and Washington.
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Newton County was last of Indiana's 92 counties to be established and began
its official existence December 9, 1859. It was first organized by the act
of 1838 and later joined to Jasper County and continued as a part of that
county for twenty years, when the commissioners of Jasper County made the
final border defining the boundaries of the new county.
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Kent, a town two miles from the southern line of the county, was made the
County Seat. From that period there were many efforts made to relocate the
County Seat until the election held June 19, 1900, when Kentland was made
the permanent County Seat.
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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, 1850.
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Indiana automobile License Plates issued in Newton County start with the
prefix 56 because it is the fifty-sixth county in alphabetical listing.
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