- Hendricks County is divided into 12 Civil Townships
as follows: Brown, Center, Clay, Eel River, Franklin,
Guilford, Liberty, Lincoln, Marion, Middle, Union and
Washington.
- Hendricks County was organized by legislative act
December 28, 1823, which was made effective by formal
organization April 21, 1824.
- According to the Indiana Gazetteer (published
in 1849), the County Seat of Hendricks County was named
Danville to honor Daniel Bales, one of the proprietors.
This is disputed in the book A Pictorial History of
Hendricks County Indiana, by Linda Balough and Betty
Bartley, which was published in 1999, indicating that
Danville was named after traveling Judge William Wick's
brother Dan.
- Danville was first settled in 1825 by Nathan Kirk,
Levi Jessup, James L. Given, James Wood and P. L.
Dickens and by 1849 contained a brick Courthouse, a
County Seminary with about sixty students, 125 dwelling
houses and had a population of 500.
- According to the Society of Indiana Pioneers, an
individual was a pioneer of our county if they resided
here on or before December 31, 1830.
- Indiana automobile License Plates issued in
Hendricks County start with the prefix 32 because it is
the thirty-second county in alphabetical listing.
- Stilesville was founded in 1823 by Jeremiah Stiles.
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