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Warrick County is divided into 10 Civil Townships as follows: Anderson, Boon,
Campbell, Greer, Hart, Lane, Ohio, Owen, Pigeon and Skelton.
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Warrick County was organized March 9, 1813 by an act of the Legislature,
which became effective April 1, 1813.
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At the time of its organization, Warrick embraced practically all of the
present counties of Posey, Vanderburgh, Spencer, Perry and a part of Crawford
County.
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Boonville wasn't always the County Seat.
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The first County Seat was Evansville, which was probably done on account
of the donation of 100 acres of land as a site for that purpose by Colonel
Hugh McGray on July 15, 1814.
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Within three months from the time Evansville was made the County Seat of
Warrick, Posey County was organized with practically its present limits,
leaving Evansville in the extreme southwestern corner of Warrick, with the
result that the Territorial Legislature, on September 1, 1814, moved the
county seat from Evansville to Darlington, a town on the Ohio River.
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The organization of Vanderburgh and Spencer counties out of Warrick County
on February 1, 1818, left it with nearly its present boundaries, and, as
Darlington was in the southeastern corner after the two counties were cut
off form either side of it, the Legislature was again called upon to name
commissioners to select a more central site, with the result that Boonville
was selected.
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Boonville, first settled in 1817, was named in honor of
Ratliff Boon (second Governor
of Indiana) and by 1849 it contained seven stores and a population of
300.
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According to authentic local historians, Warrick County had one Courthouse
fire on September 3, 1833, and it is stated that another fire occurred sometime
in 1818.
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Abraham Lincoln would come to the Courthouse in Boonville, even before he
was a lawyer, and sit in the audience to watch Zachariah Skelton as he performed
his duties as the judge. Lincoln lived in Rockport, Spencer County, Indiana.
Zachariah Skelton was the 3rd great-grandfather of Flora May Kercheval,
who submitted this information.
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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 Warrick County start with the
prefix 87 because it is the eighty-seventh county in alphabetical listing.
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