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Pike County
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county in Indiana, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Indiana
- Founded
- December 21, 1816
- Named after
- Zebulon Pike
- Seat
- Petersburg
- Largest city
- Petersburg
- Total
- 341.09 sq mi (883.4 km )
- Land
- 334.24 sq mi (865.7 km )
- Water
- 6.86 sq mi (17.8 km ) 2.01%
- Estimate 2025
- 12,003
- Density
- 36.65/sq mi (14.15/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( EDT )
- Congressional district
- 8th
- Website
- www .pikecounty .in .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Zebulon Pike
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Indiana
- Contains
- Petersburg
- Capital
- Petersburg
- Population
- 12250
- Area
- 883
- Time zone
- Eastern Time Zone
- Shares border with
- Knox County
- Official website
- www.pikecounty.in.gov
- Image
- Pike County Courthouse in Petersburg from east.jpg
- Households
- 5294
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- different from
- Pike County
- Commons category
- Pike County, Indiana
- topic's main category
- Category:Pike County, Indiana
- inception
- 1816-12-21
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Pike County, Indiana
- water as percent of area
- 2.01
- native label
- Pike County
- per capita income
- 27889
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Encyclopedic overview
Pike County is a county in the southwest portion of the U.S. state of Indiana. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 12,250. The county seat is Petersburg. It contains the geographic point representing median center of US population in 2010.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pike County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.