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Vanderburgh County
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county in Indiana, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Indiana
- Founded
- January 7, 1818
- Named after
- Henry Vanderburgh
- Seat
- Evansville
- Largest city
- Evansville
- Total
- 236.33 sq mi (612.1 km )
- Land
- 233.48 sq mi (604.7 km )
- Water
- 2.86 sq mi (7.4 km ) 1.21%
- Estimate 2025
- 181,995
- Density
- 771.53/sq mi (297.89/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- 8th
- Website
- www .vanderburghgov .org
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Vanderburgh County is a county in the U.S. state of Indiana. As of 2020, the population was 180,136. The county seat is Evansville. While Vanderburgh County was the eighth-largest county in 2020 population in Indiana, it is also the eighth-smallest county in area and the smallest in southwestern Indiana, covering only 236 square miles (610 km). Vanderburgh County forms the core of the Evansville metropolitan statistical area.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vanderburgh County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.