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Orange County, Indiana
Map
Location of Indiana in the U.S.
Facts
Founded	December 26, 1815
County Seat	Paoli
Courthouse
Address	Orange County Courthouse Court St; Paoli, IN 47454 Phone: 812.723.2649 Orange County Website

County Courthouse

Orange County Courthouse
Court St;
Paoli, IN 47454
Phone: 812.723.2649

County Health Department has birth records
from 1882, death and burial records.
County Clerk has marriage, divorce,
probate and court records from from 1816.
County Recorder has land records from 1816.^[1]

History

Parent County

1815--Orange County was created 26 December 1815 from Washington, Knox and Gibson Counties.
County seat: Paoli ^[2]

• Crawford
• Dubois
• Lawrence
• Martin
• Washington

Boundary Changes

Record Loss

Places/Localities

Populated Places

Neighboring Counties

Resources

Bible Records

• Orange County Bible records 

Cemeteries

• Cemeteries for Orange County - Linkpendium
  

• Look under Cemeteries for Orange County - USGenWeb

Census

For tips on accessing Orange County, Indiana census records online, see: Indiana Census.

• Index to Defective, Dependent & Delinquent Census for Orange County, Indiana (1880) (members only database, Indiana Genealogical Society)

Church

Court

Directories

• Directory of Businesses in Orange County, Indiana (1868) (members only database, Indiana Genealogical Society)

Land

Local Histories

• History of Washington County Indiana: A Re-Production of the Original "History of Lawrence, Orange and Washington Counties" 1884. (Salem, Ind: Washington County Historical Society, 1999.) 977.226 H2Lc FHL FHL Collection   other libraries     INTERNET ARCHIVE
  

• History of Orange County - Linkpendium
  

• Historical Articles of Orange County - INGenWeb

Maps

• Maps and Gazetteers - Linkpendium

Military

• Residents of Orange County Who Served in the Mexican War (1846-1848) ($, Indiana Genealogical Society)
• Look under Military Information - USGenWeb

Civil War

Civil War service men from Orange County served in various regiments. Men often joined a company (within a regiment) that originated in their county. Listed below are companies that were specifically formed in Orange County.

• 13th Regiment, Indiana Cavalry, Companies E, and F 
• 24th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Companies B, and G
• 38th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Companies A, and I
• 47th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Company F
• 49th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Company G
• 59th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Company F
• 66th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Companies D, and E
• 86th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Comapny C
• 93rd Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Companies A, D, G, and H
• 112th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Companies E, and H
• 137th Regiment, Indiana Infantry (100 days, 1864), Company K
• 140th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Company A
• 144th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Company F
• 145th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Company B
• 28th US Colored Troops, Companies D, E, F, G, and Addition Recruits for Colored Troops

Civil War Books

• "Military History Of Orange County" Chapter 7 in History of Washington County Indiana: A Re-Production of the Original "History of Lawrence, Orange and Washington Counties" 1884. (Salem, Ind: Washington County Historical Society, 1999.), (page 508-529, Regiment, Companies), 977.226 H2Lc FHL FHL Collection   other libraries     INTERNET ARCHIVE

Newspapers

Probate

School Records

• Directory of Teachers for Orange County (1936) ($, Indiana Genealogical Society)

Taxation

Vital Records

• Look under Vital Records for Orange County - USGenWeb

• Indiana State Digital Achives for Death, E-Publication, Instiution, Military, Misc Historical, Naturalization Records can be searched by person name (accessed 26 May 2011)
  

• Indiana Marriages, 1802-1892 - Ancestry.con $
  

• Indiana Marriages, 1780-1992  - FamilySearch
  

• Indiana Marriage, 1811-1959  - FamilySearch
  

• Indiana, Death Index, 1882-1920 - FamilySearch

Societies and Libraries 

Family History Centers

• Introduction to LDS Family History Centers

Web Sites

• USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.
• Family History Library Catalog
• Orange County, Indiana Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)

References

1. ↑ Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), Orange County, Indiana 215 At various libraries (WorldCat); FHL Book 973 D27e 2002.
2. ↑ The Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America,10th ed. (Draper, UT:Everton Publishers, 2002).

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