![]() ![]() Henderson County, Kentucky - south & southwest.Geography Īccording to the 2010 census, the county has a total area of 391.05 square miles (1,012.8 km 2), of which 384.82 square miles (996.7 km 2) (or 98.41%) is land and 6.24 square miles (16.2 km 2) (or 1.60%) is water. Evansville was the original county seat, followed by Yankeetown, Newburgh, and finally Boonville, the current seat. Within Warrick County's original jurisdiction included large portions but not entire portions of Crawford, Perry, Posey, Vanderburgh, and roughly 2/3s of Warrick County's current jurisdiction. However, because Gibson County organized a month earlier on April 1, this entire territory fell under Gibson County's jurisdiction. The same was divided into two separate and distinct counties, by a line beginning on the Wabash River, known as Rector's Base Line (was surveyed by William Rector on the line between Townships 4 South and 5 South, from New Harmony, Posey County, and Alton, Crawford County, Indiana), and with that line east until it intersects the then Gibson County line and that tract of land falling within the southern division thereof was Warrick County. The boundaries of this area began at the mouth of the Wabash River then up the Wabash River with the meanders thereof to the mouth of the White River then up the White River with the meanders thereof to the Forks of the White River then up White River East Fork to where the line between Sections 20 and 29, Township 1 North, Range 4 West, strikes the same then with that line to the then Gibson County line then with that line dividing Gibson and Knox Counties to the Ohio River then down the Ohio River, to the place of beginning. Knox County was affected by this formation and Warrick and Gibson Counties were both created out of this area of Knox County between the White River and the Ohio River. Warrick County was formed by statute, March 9, 1813, effective April 30, 1813. ![]()
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