Clarksville
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town in Clark County, Indiana, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Indiana
- County
- Clark
- Townships
- Silver Creek , Jeffersonville
- Type
- Town Council
- President
- Ryan Ramsey
- Total
- 10.24 sq mi (26.51 km )
- Land
- 10.04 sq mi (26.00 km )
- Water
- 0.20 sq mi (0.51 km )
- Elevation
- 469 ft (143 m)
- Density
- 2,225/sq mi (858.9/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( EST )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( EDT )
- Area codes
- 812 & 930
- Fips code
- 18-12934
- Website
- townofclarksville.com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Clarksville
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Clark County
- Population
- 22333
- Area
- 26.356832
- Elevation
- 139
- Time zone
- Eastern Time Zone
- Body of water
- Ohio River
- Shares border with
- Sellersburg
- Official website
- townofclarksville.com
- Image
- The Colgate Clock, Colgage-Palmolive factory, Clarksville, Indiana LCCN2010630101.tif
- Households
- 8993
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- Commons category
- Clarksville, Indiana
- topic's main category
- Category:Clarksville, Indiana
- twinned administrative body
- Bewdley
- postal code
- 47129
- inception
- 1783-00-00
- water as percent of area
- 1.9954
- different from
- Clarksville
- per capita income
- 27467
- P8168
- Q1122083
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Encyclopedic overview
Clarksville is a town in Clark County, Indiana, United States, along the Ohio River and is a part of the Louisville Metropolitan area. The population was 22,333 at the 2020 census. The town was founded in 1783 by early resident George Rogers Clark at the only seasonal rapids on the entire Ohio River, it is the oldest American town in the former Northwest Territory. The town is home to the Colgate clock, one of the largest clocks in the world and the Falls of the Ohio State Park, home to the world's largest exposed Devonian period fossil bed.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Clarksville” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.