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Pike County is divided into 9 Civil Townships as follows: Clay, Jefferson,
Lockhart, Logan, Madison, Marion, Monroe, Patoka and Washington.
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Pike County was organized on February 1, 1817.
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Petersburg is the County Seat. Laid out in 1817, and named after Peter
Brenton, who made the principal donation for the purpose of obtaining the
County Seat, the first settlers were John McIntire, Thomas C. Stewart, Peter
Brenton, Thomas Mead, Thomas Case, JOhn Finn, and others. By 1849 it contained
seven stores, two groceries, three taverns, two churches, 100 dwelling houses
(of which only five were brick), and a population of 450.
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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, 1825.
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Indiana automobile License Plates issued in Pike County start with the prefix
63 because it is the sixty-third county in alphabetical listing.
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