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Posey County
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county in Indiana, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Indiana
- Founded
- November 11, 1814
- Named after
- Thomas Posey
- Seat
- Mount Vernon
- Largest city
- Mount Vernon
- Total
- 419.32 sq mi (1,086.0 km )
- Land
- 409.57 sq mi (1,060.8 km )
- Water
- 9.75 sq mi (25.3 km )
- Estimate 2025
- 24,988
- Density
- 61.582/sq mi (23.777/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- 8th
- Website
- www .poseycountyin .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Posey County is the southernmost, southwesternmost, and westernmost county in the U.S. state of Indiana. Its southern border is formed by the Ohio River, and its western border by the Wabash River, a tributary to the Ohio. As of 2020, the population was 25,222. The county seat is Mount Vernon. Posey County is part of the Evansville, Indiana metropolitan statistical area. The Ports of Indiana-Mount Vernon, on the Ohio River, is the seventh-largest inland port complex in the nation. Mechanization of dock technology has altered the number of workers at the port, but Posey County is still the seventh-largest internal port in the United States, based on tons of materials handled. Grain from the Midwest is among the products shipped.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Posey County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.