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Spencer County
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county in Indiana, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Indiana
- Founded
- January 10, 1818
- Named after
- Spier Spencer
- Seat
- Rockport
- Largest town
- Santa Claus
- Total
- 401.43 sq mi (1,039.7 km )
- Land
- 396.74 sq mi (1,027.6 km )
- Water
- 4.68 sq mi (12.1 km )
- Estimate 2025
- 20,061
- Density
- 49.9/sq mi (19.3/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- 8th
- Website
- spencercounty .in .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Indiana
- Contains
- Rockport
- Capital
- Rockport
- Population
- 19810
- Area
- 1039
- Shares border with
- Daviess County
- Official website
- spencercounty.in.gov
- Image
- Spencer County Courthouse in Rockport.jpg
- Households
- 8321
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- Commons category
- Spencer County, Indiana
- topic's main category
- Category:Spencer County, Indiana
- inception
- 1818-01-10
- different from
- Spencer
- water as percent of area
- 1.17
- native label
- Spencer County
- per capita income
- 32105
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Spencer County, Indiana
Sources (10)
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Encyclopedic overview
Spencer County is a county located in the U.S. state of Indiana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 19,810. The county seat is Rockport. Despite not being in the Owensboro Metropolitan Area, the entire riverfront of the city of Owensboro, Kentucky borders the southern tip of the county.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Spencer County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.