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The county was officially established in 1826 and was the 53rd in Indiana. The county seat is Covington. [2] According to the 2020 United States Census, its population was 16,479. [3] The county has two incorporated cities and six incorporated towns, as well as many small unincorporated communities.
Northern Indiana Railroad: Western Indiana Railroad: C&EI: 1872 1872 Chicago, Danville and Vincennes Railroad: Western Indiana Railway: EJE: 1897 Chicago Heights and Northern Railway: White River Railway: 1901 White Water Railroad: NYC: 1878 1890 Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway: White Water Valley Railroad: NYC: 1865 1878 ...
There are several townships in Porter County, Indiana.Within each of the townships are several towns or cities or other type of named communities. There are many "lost" towns, a group of places whose names are still commonly used by county residents. Each may have had one time a post office, a store that served a part of the county, a grain elevator used by farmers to ship their crops,
Today, only a few Underground Railroad sites in Indiana are open to the public, including the Catherine and Levi Coffin home (called the "Grand Central Station of the Underground Railroad") in Wayne County and Eleutherian College in Jefferson County. Other sites have been identified with state historic markers, an ongoing effort.
The Gila Bend Steam Locomotive Water Stop was built in 1900 and is located in Gila Bend, Arizona Remnants of Turkish railway station in Nitzana, Israel. Left: Water stop. Right: Wall of the Stationmaster's office. A water stop or water station on a railroad is a place where steam trains stop to replenish water. The stopping of the train itself ...
Mollie was a stop along the Fort Wayne, Cincinnati, and Louisville Railroad—and happened to be near the region's oil fields, a convenient location for the area's oil workers. Mollie's location on the railroad line was approximately halfway between the two largest cities in Blackford County: Hartford City and Montpelier. In addition to the oil ...
The county has four incorporated cities and towns with a total population of over 15,000, [5] as well as many small unincorporated communities. The county is divided into 12 townships which provide local services. [6] [7] There are four Indiana state roads in the county, as well as three U.S. Routes and one railroad line.
Goodrum Junction was a rail junction in the township located east of the intersection of present-day County Road 950 North and Indiana State Road 49.The Goodrum station was the intersection of interurban feeder routes arriving from Valparaiso (the Valparaiso and Northern Railway) and Chesterton and the terminus of the only constructed section of the Chicago – New York Electric Air Line Railroad.