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A Few Facts About Wabash County


Wabash County is divided into 7 Civil Townships as follows: Chester, Lagro, Liberty, Noble, Paw Paw, Pleasant and Waltz.



Wabash County was formally organized March 1, 1835. It had previously been a part of what is now Huntington County.

After intense competition between the towns of Wabash and Lagro for the designation as the County Seat, an election made Wabash the County Seat by a majority of one vote.

Wabash was first settled in 1835, and the first Courthouse was a brick structure forty feet square, costing $3,000, which was finished in 1839 and continued in use until June 17, 1871, when it was destroyed by fire. By 1849 Wabash contained about 200 houses ,of which one-fourth were of brick, and there were 1,000 inhabitants.

Wabash was the first electrified city in the United States.

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.

Indiana automobile License Plates issued in Wabash County start with the prefix 85 because it is the eighty-fifth county in alphabetical listing.