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Porter County is divided into 12 Civil Townships as follows: Boone, Center,
Jackson, Liberty, Morgan, Pine, Pleasant, Portage, Porter, Union, Washington
and Westchester.
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Porter County was organized February 1, 1836.
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Valparaiso is the County Seat. The first plat for the city dated July 7,
1836, bears the name of Portersville, however, the name of the County Seat
was changed to Valparaiso during the first year and is seems to have been
done by the local authorities.
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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 Porter County start with the
prefix 64 because it is the sixty-fourth county in alphabetical listing.
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