All About Indiana

Table of Contents
           ● Blog posts about Indiana
           ● Weather updates
           ● Tourism
           ● Drought monitor
           ● COVID-19, West Nile virus, etc. updates
           (typically late spring to mid or late autumn)
           ● Major lakes
           ● Counties, their county seats, license plate numbers
           ● Towns with names of capitals and countries

Posts about Indiana: check out the posts tagged with the Indiana label ↗
Topics include Indiana's lakes and rivers, drive-in theaters, and the Lincoln Highway.

Road Travel Advisories ↗

Latest National Weather Service Updates for Indiana ↗ RSS Feed (if this does not work in your internet browser, visit weather.gov)

Visit Indiana Tourism: VisitIndiana.com ↗
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Former Slogan: Restart Your Engines

Drought Maps
     
Images are automatically updated by the U.S. Drought Monitor.
U.S. Drought Monitor home page ↗ — Indiana ↗

Indiana Coronavirus (COVID-19) Updates
Coronavirus dashboard and map ↗

Indiana EEE and WNV Arboviral Updates

Indiana State Department of Health's arboviral disease map ↗

ISDH info about various diseases:
Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE), West Nile Virus (WNV), etc. ↗

Note: EEE and WNV is generally transferred from mosquitoes to people
and various animals. People-to-people transmission happens very rarely.

● ● ● ● ●  2022  ● ● ● ● ●
Information Updated 2/19/2023

Infections of mosquito pools — mosquitoes carry EEE and WNV viruses and therefore cause infections in humans and horses
           ● Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) (0)
           ● La Crosse Virus (0)
           ● West Nile Virus (WNV) in 43 counties: Adams, Allen, Blackford, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cass, Clinton, Daviess, Decatur, DeKalb, Elkhart, Fayette, Floyd, Fountain, Gibson, Grant, Hamilton, Hancock, Hendricks, Henry, Howard, Huntington, Jay, Jasper, Knox, Kosciusko, LaPorte, Marion, Monroe, Morgan, Newton, Noble, Porter, Randolph, Saint Joseph, Steuben, Tippecanoe, Tipton, Union, Vigo, Wabash, and Wells counties — * 45 if you count LaGrange and Sullivan counties which have WNV infections in people and/or horses (see below)

People infections
           ● La Crosse Virus (0)
           ● WNV (6): Clinton (1), Floyd (1), Marion (3), and Sullivan (1) counties

Equine (horse) infections
           ● Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) (3): Kosciusko (1) and LaGrange (2) counties
           ● WNV (2): Jay (1) and LaGrange (1) counties

● ● ● ● ●  2021  ● ● ● ● ●
Information Updated 2/3/2022

Infections of mosquito pools — mosquitoes carry EEE and WNV viruses and therefore cause infections in humans and horses
           ● Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) (0)
           ● La Crosse Virus (0)
           ● West Nile Virus (WNV) (263 in 48* counties): Allen, Bartholomew, Benton, Carroll, Clark, Clay, Daviess, Delaware, Dubois, Elkhart, Floyd, Gibson, Hamilton, Harrison, Howard, Jay, Jennings, Knox, Lake, LaPorte, Lawrence, Madison, Marion, Marshall, Martin, Miami, Monroe, Newton, Noble, Orange, Owen, Perry, Posey, Putnam, Saint Joseph, Scott, Shelby, Spencer, Steuben, Sullivan, Tippecanoe, Vanderburgh, Vermillion, Vigo, Warrick, Wells, and White counties — * 53 if you count Adams, Hancock, Morgan, Porter, and Ripley counties which have WNV infections in people and/or horses (see below)

People infections
           ● La Crosse Virus (1): Morgan County (1)
           ● WNV (14): Allen (1), Clark (1), Clay (1), Dubois (1), Elkhart (2), Hancock (1), Howard (1), Lake (1), Morgan (1), Porter (3), and Saint Joseph (1) counties

Equine (horse) infections
           ● WNV (9): Adams (5), Elkhart (1), Jay (1), Monroe (1), and Ripley (1) counties

West Nile Virus in Indiana Throughout the Years

     

     

● ● ● ● ●  2020  ● ● ● ● ●
Information Updated 1/15/2021

Infections of mosquito pools — mosquitoes carry EEE and WNV viruses and therefore cause infections in humans and horses
           ● Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) (0): the ISDH reports 0 lab-tested mosquito pools with EEE; however, LaGrange, LaPorte, and Kosciusko counties may have had EEE-infected mosquitoes due to the presence of EEE in horses and/or people in those counties.
           ● West Nile Virus (WNV) (56): Adams (1), Allen (3), Clark (1), Dubois (1), Elkhart (10), Floyd (4), Fulton (1), Greene (2), Hamilton (9), Johnson (2), Kosciusko (1), LaGrange (2), Lake (1), Marion (9), Noble (1), Randolph (1), Saint Joseph (6), and Tippecanoe (1) counties; Delaware, Jasper, and LaPorte counties also likely had WNV-infected mosquitoes due to the presence of WNV in horses and/or people in those counties.

People infections
           ● EEE (1): LaPorte County
           ● WNV (4): Allen, Delaware, Jasper, and Lake counties

Equine (horse) infections
           ● EEE (4): LaGrange (2), LaPorte (1), and Kosciusko (1) counties
           ● WNV (3): Delaware (1), LaGrange (1), and LaPorte (1) counties

● ● ● ● ●  2019  ● ● ● ● ●
Information Updated 4/3/2020

November 2019 Map


October 2019 Map


September 2019 Map

Some mosquitoes in 34 Indiana counties had the West Nile virus in 2019, as determined by a total of 175 confirmed lab-test results:
           ● Allen (5), Boone (3), Brown (3), Clark (8), Clinton (2), Crawford (2), Elkhart (15), Floyd (5+6), Gibson (1), Hamilton (59), Harrison (2), Henry (4), Howard (2), Jasper (1), Jennings (1), Johnson (1), Knox (1), Kosciusko (1), LaGrange (1), Lake (2), Marion (26), Perry (4), Porter (2), Randolph (1), Saint Joseph (2), Scott (5), Sullivan (1), Tippecanoe (1), Union (1), Vigo (1), Warrick (2), Washington (1), Wayne (1), and Whitley (1)

Some mosquitoes in 1 county had the Eastern equine encephalitis, as determined by a total of 1 confirmed lab-test result: Elkhart (1)

People infections
           ● Eastern equine encephalitis (1): Elkhart County
           ● WNV (1): Crawford (1), Lake (1), and Hamilton (1)

Equine (horse) infections
           ● Eastern equine encephalitis (14): Elkhart (11) and LaGrange (3)
           ● WNV (0): no counties

● ● ● ● ●  2018  ● ● ● ● ●
Information Updated 12/3/2018

Some mosquitoes in 87 Indiana counties had the West Nile virus in 2018, as determined by a total of 688 confirmed lab-test results:
           ● All counties except Brown, Clinton, Martin, Perry, and Randolph

People infections — WNV (35): Allen (5), Delaware (3), Elkhart (2), Grant (1), Hamilton (5), Hendricks (1), Huntington (1), Kosciusko (2), Lake (4), LaPorte (1), Marion (2), Porter (1), Vanderburgh (4), Wells (1), White (1), and Whitley (1)

● ● ● ● ●  2017  ● ● ● ● ●
Information updated 12/23/2017

Some mosquitoes in 90 Indiana counties had the West Nile virus in 2017, as determined by a total of 649 confirmed lab-test results:
           ● All counties except Martin and Ohio

People infections — WNV (26): Allen (1), Bartholomew (1), Clark (2), Delaware (2), Elkhart (2), Grant (1), Greene (1), Hamilton (2), Jasper (1), Jay (1), Jennings (1), Lake (3), Madison (1), Marion (2), Marshall (1), Sullivan (1), Tippecanoe (1), Wayne (1), and Whitley (1)

People infections — serogroup viruses (La Crosse virus, etc.) (1): Ripley (1)

Equine (horse) infections — WNV (12): Adams (5), Elkhart (2), Hancock (1), LaGrange (3), and Whitley (1)

● ● ● ● ●  2016  ● ● ● ● ●
Information Updated 1/12/2017

Some mosquitoes in 58 Indiana counties had the West Nile virus in 2016, as determined by a total of 261 confirmed lab-test results:
           ● Adams, Allen, Bartholomew, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Clark, Clay, Clinton, Daviess, DeKalb, Delaware, Elkhart, Fayette, Floyd, Fulton, Gibson, Grant, Greene, Hamilton, Hancock, Hendricks, Henry, Howard, Huntington, Jefferson, Jennings, Johnson, Lake, Lawrence, Madison, Marion, Martin, Miami, Monroe, Morgan, Noble, Pike, Pulaski, Putnam, Randolph, Rush, Saint Joseph, Scott, Shelby, Spencer, Starke, Steuben, Sullivan, Tippecanoe, Vanderburgh, Vermillion, Vigo, Wabash, Washington, Wells, White, and Whitley

People infections (18): Allen (2), Bartholomew (1), Lake (8), Marion (1), Orange (1), Saint Joseph (2), Tippecanoe (1), and Vanderburgh (2)

● ● ● ● ●  2015  ● ● ● ● ●
Information Updated 11/1/2015

Some mosquitoes in 83 Indiana counties had the WNV in 2015:
           ● Adams, Allen, Bartholomew, Benton, Blackford, Boone, Brown, Carroll, Cass, Clark, Clay, Clinton, Crawford, Daviess, Dearborn, Decatur, DeKalb, Delaware, Dubois, Elkhart, Floyd, Fountain, Franklin, Fulton, Grant, Greene, Hamilton, Hancock, Harrison, Hendricks, Howard, Huntington, Jackson, Jasper, Jennings, Johnson, Knox, Kosciusko, LaGrange, Lake, LaPorte, Lawrence, Madison, Marion, Marshall, Martin, Miami, Monroe, Montgomery, Morgan, Newton, Noble, Orange, Owen, Parke, Perry, Pike, Porter, Pulaski, Putnam, Randolph, Ripley, Rush, Saint Joseph, Scott, Shelby, Spencer, Starke, Steuben, Sullivan, Switzerland, Tippecanoe, Tipton, Union, Vanderburgh, Vigo, Wabash, Warren, Warrick, Washington, Wells, White, and Whitley

People infections (21): Allen (4), Bartholomew (1), Delaware (1), Hamilton (1), Hendricks (1), Howard (1), Huntington (2), Jasper (1), Lake (1), Madison (1), Marion (2), Saint Joseph (1), Tippecanoe (1), and Vanderburgh (3)

● ● ● ● ●  2014  ● ● ● ● ●
Information Updated 11/12/2014

Some mosquitoes in 54 Indiana counties had the WNV in 2014:
           ● Adams, Allen, Carroll, Clark, Clay, Dearborn, Decatur, DeKalb, Delaware, Dubois, Elkhart, Floyd, Fulton, Gibson, Grant, Greene, Hamilton, Hendricks, Henry, Howard, Jackson, Jefferson, Jennings, Johnson, Knox, Kosciusko, LaGrange, Lake, LaPorte, Lawrence, Marion, Marshall, Miami, Morgan, Newton, Orange, Pike, Posey, Pulaski, Putnam, Ripley, Rush, Saint Joseph, Scott, Steuben, Sullivan, Switzerland, Tippecanoe, Vanderburgh, Vigo, Wabash, Washington, Wells, and White

People infections (9): Hancock (1), Kosciusko (1), Lawrence (1), Marion (1), Porter (3), Putnam (1), and Vanderburgh (1)

● ● ● ● ●  2013  ● ● ● ● ●
Information Updated 11/20/2013

Some mosquitoes in 87 Indiana counties (all except 5*) had the WNV in 2013:
* Ripley County did not confirm WNV mosquitoes, even though it has a human infection. This person might've contracted the WNV from another county and state. Colored grey in the county map (above), the four truly non-WNV counties are Dearborn, Jennings, Orange, and Switzerland.
           ● Adams, Allen, Bartholomew, Benton, Blackford, Boone, Brown, Carroll, Cass, Clark, Clay, Clinton, Crawford, Daviess, Decatur, DeKalb, Delaware, Dubois, Elkhart, Fayette, Floyd, Franklin, Fountain, Fulton, Gibson, Grant, Greene, Hamilton, Hancock, Harrison, Hendricks, Henry, Howard, Huntington, Jackson, Jasper, Jay, Jefferson, Johnson, Knox, Kosciusko, LaGrange, Lake, LaPorte, Lawrence, Madison, Marion, Marshall, Martin, Miami, Monroe, Montgomery, Morgan, Newton, Noble, Ohio, Owen, Parke, Perry, Pike, Porter, Posey, Pulaski, Putnam, Randolph, Rush, Saint Joseph, Scott, Shelby, Spencer, Starke, Steuben, Sullivan, Tippecanoe, Tipton, Union, Vanderburgh, Vermillion, Vigo, Wabash, Warren, Warrick, Washington, Wayne, Wells, White, and Whitley

People infections (22): Allen (1), Bartholomew (1), Clark (1), Elkhart (1), Floyd (1), Hamilton (1), Kosciusko (2), Lake (1), Marion (2), Miami (1), Porter (3), Ripley (1), Scott (1), Vanderburgh (3), Vigo (1), and Warrick (1)

Major Lakes

Minnesota is known as the Land of 10,000 Lakes; there are actually almost 12,000 major lakes (lakes larger than 10 acres) in the North Star State. In a sense, Indiana likely has over 10,000 lakes as well...only if the tiniest ponds are included! Most natural Hoosier lakes are found in the northern counties, where kettle lakes dot the landscape thanks to the melting and land-shaping glacial ice. The state's human-created, artificial reservoirs are mostly found in Southern Indiana. However, this region boasts dozens (if not hundreds) of karst lakes. This is a type of freshwater lake in which water wells up from under ground to permeate and flow above soft, porous limestone and other minerals. Some Southern Indiana lakes are known for their strikingly jagged valley patterns.

The following list is a comprehensive overview of major lakes in each county. For disclaimer purposes: some lakes listed below might be inaccessible, part of privately-owned land, or unsuitable/unsafe for recreational purposes (swimming, fishing, etc.). Some counties are lacking when it comes to recreational, publicly accessible lakes. Access this water quality post ↗ to learn about lakes experiencing severe eutrophication, a process that encourages too much algae growth and may deprive fish of vital oxygen levels. This section of the All About Indiana page was mostly compiled with the use of Google Maps, lakes data from the IndianaMAP GIS layer/shapefile (maps.indiana.edu/index.html), and GeoNames.

● ● ● ● ●  ADAMS  ● ● ● ● ●
Fryback and Rainbow

● ● ● ● ●  ALLEN  ● ● ● ● ●
Cedarville Reservoir, Hurshtown Reservoir, and Shoaff

● ● ● ● ●  BARTHOLOMEW  ● ● ● ● ●
Echo, Grandview, Harrison, Lutheran, Plover Pit, Sandpiper Pit, Schaefer, Tamerix, and Tipton Lakes

● ● ● ● ●  BENTON  ● ● ● ● ●
Several unnamed lakes

● ● ● ● ●  BLACKFORD  ● ● ● ● ●
Blue Water, Cains, Mohee, Placid, and Shamrock Lakes

● ● ● ● ●  BOONE  ● ● ● ● ●
Eagle, Old Mill Pond, Oxidation, Russell, and Wurster

● ● ● ● ●  BROWN  ● ● ● ● ●
Cordry, Crain, Gallahue, Green, Happy Landing, LaSalle, Lemon, Little Fox, Monroe, Ogle, Parker, Shady Oaks, Smith, Sweetwater, and Woodland

● ● ● ● ●  CARROLL  ● ● ● ● ●
Freeman, Vernon Payne, and Wally’s Woods

● ● ● ● ●  CASS  ● ● ● ● ●
Cicott and Perry

● ● ● ● ●  CLARK  ● ● ● ● ●
Big Bass, Deam, Franke, Hideaway, Jack Pine Park, Oak, Schlamm, Scottsville, Shady Hollow, Silver Lakes, and Stumbler

● ● ● ● ●  CLAY  ● ● ● ● ●
Bowles, Dietz, Kickapoo, Lake of the Woods, Shakamak, Water Works, and Whippoorwill

● ● ● ● ●  CLINTON  ● ● ● ● ●
Little and several other unnamed lakes

● ● ● ● ●  CRAWFORD  ● ● ● ● ●
English Reservoir, Patoka, and Wyandotte

● ● ● ● ●  DAVIESS  ● ● ● ● ●
Dogwood, Dove Hollow, Elmore Pond, Indian Rock, Swan Pond, and West Boggs

● ● ● ● ●  DEARBORN  ● ● ● ● ●
Dilldear, Hidden Valley, J. Maxwell, Melody, Old Channel, Perrine, Souders, and Twin Lakes

● ● ● ● ●  DECATUR  ● ● ● ● ●
Dream, Greensburg City Park, Greensburg Reservoir, McCoy, Middle Fork, Morrison Pond, Reed Reservoir, and Santee

● ● ● ● ●  DEKALB  ● ● ● ● ●
Burdick, Cedar, Dunton, Haynes, Holiday Lakes, Indian, Lintz, Lower Story, San Giovanni, Terry, and Upper Story

● ● ● ● ●  DELAWARE  ● ● ● ● ●
Burlington, Emerald, Jackson, Long, and Prairie Creek Reservoir

● ● ● ● ●  DUBOIS  ● ● ● ● ●
Briedenbaugh, Calumet, Deerwood, Ferdinand State Forest, Habig, Holland, Huntingburg, Huntingburg Conservation Club, Idle Hour, Ireland, Izaac Walton, Jasper, Lottes, McMurtie, Olinger, Patoka, Ruxer, and William

● ● ● ● ●  ELKHART  ● ● ● ● ●
Boot, Dock, East, Fidler Pond, Fish, Goose Pond, Goshen Dam Pond, Heaton, Hunter, Indiana, Norton, Simonton, and Wolf

● ● ● ● ●  FAYETTE  ● ● ● ● ●
Manlove, Neuman, and Smalley’s Pond

● ● ● ● ●  FLOYD  ● ● ● ● ●
Arrowhead, Bill’s Lakes, Brazil, Floyds Knobs, Georgetown, Greenville Reservoir, Mount Saint Francis, and Ulrich

● ● ● ● ●  FOUNTAIN  ● ● ● ● ●
Charlarose, Coffing Brothers, Harrison, Hemlock Lakes, Holiday Hideaway, Riley, Roger’s, Shawnee, Sugar Mill, and Twin

● ● ● ● ●  FRANKLIN  ● ● ● ● ●
Brookville, Gemco, Santee, Shady, Triple, Wayne Kopp, and Woodland Retreat

● ● ● ● ●  FULTON  ● ● ● ● ●
Anderson, Barr, Bowen, Boyer, Bruce, Fletcher’s, Kings, Lears, Lost, Manitou, Mill Pond, Mud, Nyona, O’Blennis, Rock, Schael, South Mud, Stinson, Summit (including Middle Summit and Upper Summit), Town, and Zink

● ● ● ● ●  GIBSON  ● ● ● ● ●
Broad Pond, Burnet Pond, Foote Pond, Gibson, Goose Pond, Long Pond, Maucks Pond, New, and Old

● ● ● ● ●  GRANT  ● ● ● ● ●
Brookhaven Addition, Dollar, Glendale, Marion, Lincoln Country Club, Loew, Sports, Taylor, and Wagner

● ● ● ● ●  GREENE  ● ● ● ● ●
Beechwood, Boat, Boy Scout Pond, County Line, Dyer, Harmons, Jackson, Kickapoo, Lenape, More, Moses, Powell Pond, Sunflower Pond, and Thomas

● ● ● ● ●  HAMILTON  ● ● ● ● ●
Geist Reservoir, Morse Reservoir, Ullswater, Valley Forge, Windemere, Woodland, and Woodland Addition

● ● ● ● ●  HANCOCK  ● ● ● ● ●
Perry, Roberts, Spring, and Sugar Hills

● ● ● ● ●  HARRISON  ● ● ● ● ●
Farris, Number 2, Overflow Pond, Pine Springs, and Saint Peter’s

● ● ● ● ●  HENDRICKS  ● ● ● ● ●
Beck, Danville Conservation Clubhouse, Donahue, Forest (2 lakes), Indianhead, Jeto, Klondike Pond, Ledgewood, Manor, Penn, Pins Way, Stout, Sunset, and View

● ● ● ● ●  HENRY  ● ● ● ● ●
Castle, Giboney, Haven, Summit Lake Reservoir, and Westwood Park Reservoir

● ● ● ● ●  HOWARD  ● ● ● ● ●
Kokomo Waterworks Reservoir #1 and Kokomo Waterworks Reservoir #2; “Mud Creek Lake” and several other unnamed lakes

● ● ● ● ●  HUNTINGTON  ● ● ● ● ●
Clair, Huntington, J. Edward Roush, Salamonie, and Timber

● ● ● ● ●  JACKSON  ● ● ● ● ●
Beck Pond, Berry Branch, Buckskin Pond, Docs, Fox Pond, Hillview, Knob, Peter’s, Pyoca, Scholl Pond, Starve Hollow, and Tarzian

● ● ● ● ●  JASPER  ● ● ● ● ●
Lake Holiday and an unnamed lake in NE Jasper Co.

● ● ● ● ●  JAY  ● ● ● ● ●
Fox Lake and several unnamed lakes

● ● ● ● ●  JEFFERSON  ● ● ● ● ●
I. V. West, Jefferson, Miller, and Rider

● ● ● ● ●  JENNINGS  ● ● ● ● ●
Broomsage, Brush Creek Reservoir, Country Squire, Crosley, Goose Pond, Hickory, Kimberly, Mallard Pond, Teal Pond, and Whippoorwill

● ● ● ● ●  JOHNSON  ● ● ● ● ●
Bell, Brown, Carolyn, Dailey, Dearmin, Donald, Earlham, FFA Youth, H Lake, Hants, Hood, I Lake, Lamb, Mullendore Pond, Peoga, Pisgah, Princes Lakes (East, North, and Northeast), Ray Willoughby, Riley, Roger Young, Saunders, Stone Arch, and Woodridge

● ● ● ● ●  KNOX  ● ● ● ● ●
Broadie, City, Clarence Kopp, Claypole Pond, Clear Pond, Cleveland, Grays Pond, Half Moon Pond, Horseshoe Pond, Long Pond, Maria Pond, Mine Pond, Mirror, Nicholson Pond, Otter Pond, Swan Pond, and Wabash Pond

● ● ● ● ●  KOSCIUSKO  ● ● ● ● ●
Allen, Banning, Barrel-and-a-Half, Beaver Dam, Beigh, Barbee (Big and Little), Black, Caldwell, Carr, Crystal, Dewart, Diamond, Durham, Fish, Goldeneye Pond, Goose, Grindle, Hammond, Heckman, Heron, Hill, Hoffman, James, Jamison, Kiser, Kuhn, Larrew, Little (North and South), Little Chapman, Long, Loon, McClure’s, McPherson, Morehead, Mud, Muskellunge, Palestine, Papakeechie, Pierceton, Pike, Pisgah, Price, Read, Reed, Ridinger, Rock, Rothenberger, Sawmill, Schultz, Sechrist, Seller’s, Sheely, Sherburn, Shock, Shoe, Sickle, Snoke, Spear, Stafford, Stanton, Stevens, Tennant, Tibbitts, Tippecanoe, Waubee, Wawasee, Webster, Whyland, Wyland, and Yellow Creek Lk.

● ● ● ● ●  LAGRANGE  ● ● ● ● ●
Adams, Appleman, Atwood, Beaverdam, Big Long, Big Turkey, Blackman, Brokesha, Brown, Buck, Case, Cass, Cedar, Cline, Cotton, D Marsh (North and South), Dallas, Dollar, Donaldson, Duff, East, Emma, Eve, Fennell, Fish, Goose Pond (3), Grass, Grassy, Green, Hackenburg, Hayward, Lake of the Woods, Lane, Little Turkey, Martin, Massassauga, McClish, Messick, Meteer, Mongo Millpond, Mud (2 lakes), Nauvoo, Olin, Oliver, Ontario Millpond, Pigeon, Pike Marsh, Pond Lil, Pretty, Quog, Rainbow, Royer, Shipshewana, Spectacle Lakes, Still, Stink Pond, Stone, Taylor (2 lakes), Troxel, Wall, Weir, and Witmer

● ● ● ● ●  LAKE  ● ● ● ● ●
Bel-Aire, Bingo, Cedar, Fancher, Fisher Pond, George (2 lakes), Golf, Grand Boulevard, Hermit, Hidden, Holiday, Mac Joy, Michigan, Redwing, Robinson, Seven, Trouthaven, and Wolf

● ● ● ● ●  LAPORTE  ● ● ● ● ●
Browdy, Clare, Clear (3), Crane, Davidson, Dingler, Finger, Fishtrap, Hildebrand, Horseshoe, Hudson, Hunt, Lee, Lily, Lower, Michigan, Ohms, Orr, Porter, Pottawattamie, Round, Ryden Lakes, Saugany, Silver, Spychalskis Pond, Swede, Tee, Upper Fish, and Walton

● ● ● ● ●  LAWRENCE  ● ● ● ● ●
Half Moon, Ken-Ray, Rainbow, Sheeks, and Tincher

● ● ● ● ●  MADISON  ● ● ● ● ●
Aqua Gardens (ponds), Pine Lake, and several unnamed lakes along the White River

● ● ● ● ●  MARION  ● ● ● ● ●
Bacon Swamp, Eagle Creek Reservoir, Geist Reservoir, Indian, Le-An-Wa, Lux, Peyton, Sullivan, Traders’ Point, Wagon Wheel, and West

● ● ● ● ●  MARSHALL  ● ● ● ● ●
Cook, Dixon, Eddy, Flat, Gilbert, Holem, Houghton, Koontz, Kreighbaum (Zehner Millpond), Lake of the Woods, Latonka, Lawrence, Lost, Maxinkuckee, Moore, Mud, Myers, Pretty, and Thomas

● ● ● ● ●  MARTIN  ● ● ● ● ●
Baver, Greenwood, Oberlin, Seed Tick, and West Boggs

● ● ● ● ●  MIAMI  ● ● ● ● ●
Fox, Gaerte, and Mississinewa

● ● ● ● ●  MONROE  ● ● ● ● ●
Bethal, Bryant Creek Lk., Cherry, Egenolf, Geiger Ridge Pond, Griffy Reservoir, Henke, Hunter Creek Pond, Jay Pond, Lazy, Lemon, Monroe, Schact, Tower Blackwell, Twin Lakes, University, and Weimer

● ● ● ● ●  MONTGOMERY  ● ● ● ● ●
C. Moore, Holiday, Shades Pond, Sportsman’s Club, and Waveland

● ● ● ● ●  MORGAN  ● ● ● ● ●
Amy, Arens, Armstrong, Arnold, Bodona, Bray, Cox, Crouse, Dalton, Dillman (including South Lake Dillman), Durham Drive, Echo, Edgewood, Foxcliff, Guthrie, Hart, Hill-Place, Hren, J Lake, Kivett, Lambert, Leona, Little Nebo, Maxine, Mann, Merrywood, Monical, Old Swimmin’ Hole, Painted Hills, Paradise (Lower and Upper), Paragon, Parker, Patton, Poplar Grove, Primrose, Ross-Wise, St. Mary-of-the-Woods, Shadow, Smith, Spring (including Upper Spring), Stockton, Three-Point, Twin Oaks, Vandenbark, Whippoorwill, Whispering Wind, Whitley, and Wildwood (including Upper Wildwood)

● ● ● ● ●  NEWTON  ● ● ● ● ●
Cory, J. C. Murphey, and Riverside

● ● ● ● ●  NOBLE  ● ● ● ● ●
Axel, Barr, Bartley, Bass, Baugher, Bear, Beck, Big, Bixler, Bowen, Bowman, Brackney, Bristol, Buckles, Bushong, Clouse, Crane, Cree, Cub, Davis, Deep, Deer, Diamond, Dock, Dollar, Duck, Duely, Eagle, Engle, Finster Lakes, Gilbert, Gordy, Grannis, Green, Hall, Harper, Harroff, Hawk, Henderson, Hickman, High, Hindman, Horseshoe, Indian (2 lakes), Jessie-Ca, Johnson, Keister, King, Knapp, Krieger, Kuhns, Latta, Lindsey, Little Cub, Little Knapp, Little Long, Little Smalley, Little Whitford, Long, Loon, Lower Long, Marl, Maxler, McHenry, Metz, Miller, Miller’s, Mirror, Moore, Moss, Mud (2 lakes), Muncie, Munk, Nauvoo, Needham, Norman, Petty, Pleasant, Port Mitchell, Poyser, Rider, Rivir, Roudy, Round, Russell, Sacarider, Sand, Sanford, Schauweker, Schockopee, Silver, Skinner, Smalley, Sparta, Spring, Stump, Summit, Sweet, Sylvan, Upper Long, Village, Waldron, Weber, Whirledge, Wible, Williams, Wilmot Pond, and Wolf

● ● ● ● ●  OHIO  ● ● ● ● ●
Several unnamed lakes

● ● ● ● ●  ORANGE  ● ● ● ● ●
Olinger, Orleans Waterworks Reservoir, Patoka, Sleepy Hollow, Tucker, and Wildwood

● ● ● ● ●  OWEN  ● ● ● ● ●
Amazon, Barnes, Cagles Mill, Camp Otto, Cotton’s Little Pine, Farm Pond, Greybrook, Hollybrook, Paradise, Ralph Ketchum, Salter, Thomas, and Timber Ridge

● ● ● ● ●  PARKE  ● ● ● ● ●
Alma, Case, Cecil M. Harden, Lakeview Estates, Rockville, Rocky Fork, and Waveland

● ● ● ● ●  PERRY  ● ● ● ● ●
Celina, Deer, Derby Pond, East Deer Pond, Echo Valley, Fenn Haven, Gatchel Pond, Gerber Pond, Harding Pond, Helwig Hollow Pond, Indian, Lost Lake Pond, Middle Deer Pond, Mill, Oriole, Saddle, Timberlake Pond, and Tipsaw

● ● ● ● ●  PIKE  ● ● ● ● ●
Augusta, Edward, Eros, Globe Pond, Helmerich, Molly, Oxley, Pride’s Creek Lk., and William

● ● ● ● ●  PORTER  ● ● ● ● ●
Big Bass, Billington, Bull’s-Eye, Canada, Carlson Pond, Charles, Chestnut Lakes, Chubb, Clear, Deep, Eliza, Flint, Florence, Holiday, Lake on the Green, Long (2 lakes), Long Pond, Loomis, Louise, Mar-Mac, Michigan, Mink, Minnehaha, Morgan, Moss, Mud (2 lakes), Norman Olson, Pratt, Rice, Robbins Pond, Round, Sagers, Silver, Spectacle, Tommy Pond, and Wauhob

● ● ● ● ●  POSEY  ● ● ● ● ●
Goose Pond (2 ponds), Halfmoon Pond, Hovey, Knowles, Little Pitcher, Lost, Pahoka Camp, Pitcher, Servel, Slim Pond, Twin Lake, and Weirs

● ● ● ● ●  PULASKI  ● ● ● ● ●
Bruce, Devil, and Langenbahn

● ● ● ● ●  PUTNAM  ● ● ● ● ●
Albin Pond, Baire, Banks, Cagles Mill, Dogwood Springs, Edgewood, Elmer Martens, Glenn Flint, Greyhound, Heritage, Oakalla, Paradise, Quarry Pond, Thomas, and Van Bibber

● ● ● ● ●  RANDOLPH  ● ● ● ● ●
Indian Trail, several unnamed lakes, The Pit, and Wheeler Lakes

● ● ● ● ●  RIPLEY  ● ● ● ● ●
Bischoff Reservoir, Feller Reservoir, Hahn Reservoir, Mollenkramer Reservoir, Old Timber, Oser Reservoir, Paradise, Sycamore, Tall Oaks, and Versailles

● ● ● ● ●  RUSH  ● ● ● ● ●
Frank Alexander; “Arlington Lake,” “Carthage Lakes,” and several other unnamed lakes

● ● ● ● ●  SAINT JOSEPH  ● ● ● ● ●
Catfish, Chain O’ Lakes, Chamberlain, Deer, Dine, Dipper, Dollar, Elizabeth, Fites, Hardy’s, Lancaster, Lost, Moon, Mud, North Chain, Pinhook, Pleasant, Riddles, Rupel, Saint Joseph’s, Saint Mary’s, Sousley, South Chain, South Clear, Spicer, Twin Lakes, Wharton, and Worster

● ● ● ● ●  SCOTT  ● ● ● ● ●
Arthur S. Kingman, Bowen, David Garriott, Don Reid, Forrest Helton, Hosea, Howard, Iola, Kinderhook, Marshall King, Marysville, McColloch, Pine, Presbyterian National Missions Lk., Scottsburg Reservoir, Smith, and Thomas J. Miller

● ● ● ● ●  SHELBY  ● ● ● ● ●
Burnside Pit, Lk. Pleasant, and several unnamed lakes

● ● ● ● ●  SPENCER  ● ● ● ● ●
Cedar Crest, Chrisney, Christmas, Dale Reservoir, Holly, Lincoln, Miller, Noel, Rudolph, Saint Meinrad, Santa Claus, and Vance

● ● ● ● ●  STARKE  ● ● ● ● ●
Bass, Eagle, Hartz, Koontz, Langenbahn, and Round

● ● ● ● ●  STEUBEN  ● ● ● ● ●
Anne, Arrowhead, Ball, Barton, Bass, Beaverdam, Bell, Black, Booth, Bower (Big and Little), Brown, Buck, Cemetery, Center (including Little Center and Middle Center), Chair Factory Lk., Charles (East and West), Cheeseboro, Clear, Crockett, Crooked, Deep, Eaton, Fish, Fox, Gannon (Stayner), Gage, Gentian, George, Golden, Gooseneck, Grass, Gravel Pit Lk., Green (2 lakes), Hamilton, Handy, Henry, Hogback, Howard, James, Jimmerson, Johnson (2 lakes), Koeneman, Lake of the Woods, Lk. Pleasant and Pleasant Lk., Lime (2 lakes), Lime Kiln, Lone Hickory, Long (2 lakes), Long Beach, Lonidaw, Loon, Marsh, McClish, Milldam, Mink, Meserve, Michiana, Minifenokee, Mirror, Otter (Big, Little, and West), Perch, Perfect, Pigeon, Pine Canyon, Reed, Rhodes, Round (2 lakes), Sally Owen, Seven Sisters Lakes, Shallow, Silver, Snow, Syl-Van, Tamarack (2 lakes), Terry, Turkey (Big and Little), Vogelbacher (Jackson), Walters, and Warner

● ● ● ● ●  SULLIVAN  ● ● ● ● ●
Buzzard Pond, Greenbriar, Hickory, Jonay Pond, Kickapoo, More, Motorboat, Narrow, Old Channel, Red, Reservoir North, Reservoir South, Round Pond, South, Sullivan, Sunflower, Thunderbird Pond, Turtle Creek Lk., and Twin

● ● ● ● ●  SWITZERLAND  ● ● ● ● ●
Camp Livingston Lk., Edwin Pray, and Geneva

● ● ● ● ●  TIPPECANOE  ● ● ● ● ●
Blackbird Pond, Fairfield Lakes, Hadley, Mulvey Pond, Purdue University Pond, and several unnamed lakes

● ● ● ● ●  TIPTON  ● ● ● ● ●
Several unnamed lakes

● ● ● ● ●  UNION  ● ● ● ● ●
Brookville, several unnamed lakes, and Whitewater

● ● ● ● ●  VANDERBURGH  ● ● ● ● ●
Bell Conservation Lk., Bittner, Edgewater, Harold Mann, Kahr, Lloyd Hahn, Mater Dei Provincial Lk., Morgan, North Estates Lk., Ray Nell Acres Lk., Reflection (@ University of Southern Indiana), Servel, William Hamilton, and Woodland

● ● ● ● ●  VERMILLION  ● ● ● ● ●
Chew Lk., Collett Pond, Horseshoe Lakes, McDonald, and Shell

● ● ● ● ●  VIGO  ● ● ● ● ●
Blue Hole (pond), Boyle, Chestnut Bayou, Farmer Lk., Forest Park Swimming Pool, Fowler Park Lk., Greenfield Bayou, Hickory Grove Pond, Hulman Lodge Lk., Israel, Izaak Walton, Kieweg, Lee, Little Grassy Pond, Llewellyn, Malone Pond, Maple Avenue Lk., Morey, Muskrat Pond, Noji, North, Paint Mill Lk., Patton, Pennington Pond, Round Pond, Saint Mary’s Lake, South, Strip, Thomson, Tri-Land Estates Lk., Wadsworth, Wanda, Windemere, and Wonder

● ● ● ● ●  WABASH  ● ● ● ● ●
Bear, Brown, Bull, Dick Thomas Pond, Fearnow, Flat, Hominy Ridge, J. Chamberlain Pond, Lotz, Lukens, McColley, Mississinewa, Mud, Niconzah, Round, and Salamonie

● ● ● ● ●  WARREN  ● ● ● ● ●
Desmond Able, Kates, and Otterbein (Cranberry Marsh)

● ● ● ● ●  WARRICK  ● ● ● ● ●
Chase, City (Boonville) Lake Number One, Collins, Hendrickson, Pfafflin, several unnamed lakes, and Warren’s

● ● ● ● ●  WASHINGTON  ● ● ● ● ●
John Hays, Palmyra, “Rush Creek Lk.,” Salinda, several unnamed lakes, and “Twin Creek Lk.”

● ● ● ● ●  WAYNE  ● ● ● ● ●
Elkhorn Lakes, Glen White, Hi-Way Springs Lakes, Middle Fork Reservoir, Osborne Lakes, Scout, several unnamed lakes, and We-Hi Lk.

● ● ● ● ●  WELLS  ● ● ● ● ●
Kunkel, Lost, Moser, several unnamed lakes, and Spiker

● ● ● ● ●  WHITE  ● ● ● ● ●
Lake Freeman and Lake Shafer

● ● ● ● ●  WHITLEY  ● ● ● ● ●
Bennett, Black, Blue, Brown, Catfish, Cedar, Compton, Crooked, Devil’s, Dollar, Goose, Ice House, Indian (2 lakes), Karen, Larwill, Leininger, Little, Little Cedar, Little Troy Cedar, Little Wilson, Loon, Menzie, Metzger Pond, Mud, Old, Rine, Round, Scott, Shriner, Souder, T Lake, Tadpole, Troy Cedar, Wilson, and Winters

The Major Lakes section was completed on June 19th, 2017

Counties

The counties of Indiana;
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There are 92 counties in Indiana. They are listed below in alphabetical order. For the purpose of organizing the counties in my map, I've formed four sections that each have 23 counties.

For Map Reference: N - Northern; S - Southern; E - Eastern; W - Western

'A' Counties: Adams & Allen (both N)
'B' Counties: Bartholomew (E), Benton (W), Blackford (E), Boone (W), & Brown (S)
'C' Counties: Carroll (W), Cass (W), Clark (S), Clay (W), Clinton (W), & Crawford (S)
'D' Counties: Daviess (S), Dearborn (E), Decatur (E), DeKalb (N), Delaware (E), & Dubois (S)
'E' County: Elkhart (N)
'F' Counties: Fayette (E), Floyd (S), Fountain (W), Franklin (E), & Fulton (N)
'G' Counties: Gibson (S), Grant (E), & Greene (S)
'H' Counties: Hamilton (W), Hancock (E), Harrison (S), Hendricks (W), Henry (E), Howard (W), & Huntington (N)
'J' Counties: Jackson (S), Jasper (N), Jay (E), Jefferson (E), Jennings (E), & Johnson (W)
'K' Counties: Knox (S) & Kosciusko (N)
'L' Counties: LaGrange (N), Lake (N), LaPorte (N), & Lawrence (S)
'M' Counties: Madison (E), Marion (W), Marshall (N), Martin (S), Miami (N), Monroe (S), Montgomery (W), & Morgan (W)
'N' Counties: Newton & Noble (both N)
'O' Counties: Ohio (E), Orange (S), & Owen (W)
'P' Counties: Parke (W), Perry (S), Pike (S), Porter (N), Posey (S), Pulaski (N), & Putnam (W)
'R' Counties: Randolph, Ripley, & Rush (all E)
'S' Counties: Saint Joseph (N), Scott (E), Shelby (E), Spencer (S), Starke (N), Steuben (N), Sullivan (S), & Switzerland (E)
'T' Counties: Tippecanoe & Tipton (both W)
'U' County: Union (E)
'V' Counties: Vanderburgh (S), Vermillion (W), & Vigo (W)
'W' Counties: Wabash (N), Warren (W), Warrick (S), Washington (S), Wayne (E), Wells (N), White (W), & Whitley (N)

County Seats

Number in parentheses represents the license plate prefix (number) of each county.

« A »

ADAMS county (1) » Decatur
ALLEN (2) » Fort Wayne

« B »

BARTHOLOMEW (3) » Columbus
BENTON (4) » Fowler
BLACKFORD (5) » Hartford City
BOONE (6) » Lebanon
BROWN (7) » Nashville

« C »

CARROLL (8) » Delphi
CASS (9) » Logansport
CLARK (10) » Jeffersonville
CLAY (11) » Brazil
CLINTON (12) » Frankfort
CRAWFORD (13) » English

« D »

DAVIESS (14) » Washington
DEARBORN (15) » Lawrenceburg
DECATUR (16) » Greensburg
DEKALB (17) » Auburn
DELAWARE (18) » Muncie
DUBOIS (19) » Jasper

« E »

ELKHART (20) » Goshen

« F »

FAYETTE (21) » Connersville
FLOYD (22) » New Albany
FOUNTAIN (23) » Covington
FRANKLIN (24) » Brookville
FULTON (25) » Rochester

« G »

GIBSON (26) » Princeton
GRANT (27) » Marion
GREENE (28) » Bloomfield

« H »

HAMILTON (29) » Noblesville
HANCOCK (30) » Greenfield
HARRISON (31) » Corydon
HENDRICKS (32) » Danville
HENRY (33) » New Castle
HOWARD (34) » Kokomo
HUNTINGTON (35) » Huntington

« J »

JACKSON (36) » Seymour
JASPER (37) » Rensselaer
JAY (38) » Portland
JEFFERSON (39) » Madison
JENNINGS (40) » Vernon - not North Vernon, a more-populated town
JOHNSON (41) » Franklin

« K »

KNOX (42) » Vincennes
KOSCIUSKO (43) » Warsaw

« L »

LAGRANGE (44) » LaGrange
LAKE (45 & 94) » Crown Point
LAPORTE (46) » LaPorte
LAWRENCE (47) » Bedford

« M »

MADISON (48) » Anderson
MARION (49, 93, 95, and 97-99) » Indianapolis
MARSHALL (50) » Plymouth
MARTIN (51) » Shoals
MIAMI (52) » Peru
MONROE (53) » Bloomington
MONTGOMERY (54) » Crawfordsville
MORGAN (55) » Martinsville

« N »

NEWTON (56) » Kentland
NOBLE (57) » Albion

« O »

OHIO (58) » Rising Sun
ORANGE (59) » Paoli
OWEN (60) » Spencer

« P »

PARKE (61) » Rockville
PERRY (62) » Tell City
PIKE (63) » Petersburg
PORTER (64) » Valparaiso
POSEY (65) » Mount Vernon
PULASKI (66) » Winamac
PUTNAM (67) » Greencastle

« R »

RANDOLPH (68) » Winchester
RIPLEY (69) » Versailles
RUSH (70) » Rushville

« S »

SAINT JOSEPH (71) » South Bend
SCOTT (72) » Scottsburg
SHELBY (73) » Shelbyville
SPENCER (74) » Rockport
STARKE (75) » Knox
STEUBEN (76) » Angola
SULLIVAN (77) » Sullivan
SWITZERLAND (78) » Vevay

« T »

TIPPECANOE (79) » Lafayette
TIPTON (80) » Tipton

« U »

UNION (81) » Liberty

« V »

VANDERBURGH (82) » Evansville
VERMILLION (83) » Newport
VIGO (84) » Terre Haute

« W »

WABASH (85) » Wabash
WARREN (86) » Williamsport
WARRICK (87) » Boonville
WASHINGTON (88) » Salem
WAYNE (89) » Richmond
WELLS (90) » Bluffton
WHITE (91) » Monticello
WHITLEY (92) » Columbia City

Towns with Names of Capitals and Countries

● ● ● ● ●  CAPITALS  ● ● ● ● ●

Algiers (Pike Co.) ― Capital of Algeria
Athens (Fulton Co.) ― Capital of Greece
Cairo (Tippecanoe Co.) ― Capital of Egypt
Berlin (Clinton Co.) ― Capital of Germany ― this community no longer exists
Dublin (Wayne Co.) ― Capital of Ireland
Freetown (Jackson Co.) ― Capital of Sierra Leone
Kingston (Decatur Co.) ― Capital of Jamaica
La Paz (Marshall Co.) ― One of two capitals in Bolivia
Lima (LaGrange Co. ) ― Capital of Peru ― Town renamed to Howe
Lisbon (Noble Co.) ― Capital of Portugal
London (Shelby Co.) ― Capital of United Kingdom
Manilla (Rush Co.) ― Likely named after the capital of The Philippines
Moscow (Rush Co.) ― Capital of Russia
New Amsterdam (Harrison Co.) ― Amsterdam is the capital of the Netherlands
New Lisbon (Henry and Randolph Co.) ― Lisbon is the capital of Portugal
New London (Howard Co.) ― London is the capital of the United Kingdom
New Paris (Elkhart Co.) ― Paris is the capital of France
Paris (Jennings Co.) ― Capital of France
Paris Crossing (Jennings Co.) ― Named after the capital of France
Rome (Perry Co.) ― Capital of Italy
Vienna (Scott Co.) ― Capital of Austria
Warsaw (Kosciusko Co.) ― Capital of Poland

● ● ● ● ●  COUNTRIES  ● ● ● ● ●

Brazil (Clay Co.)
Ceylon (Adams Co.) ― Ceylon was a country before it was named Sri Lanka
China (Jefferson Co.)
Cuba (Allen and Owen Counties)
Denmark (Owen Co.)
Egypt (Jasper Co.)
Germany (Clark Co.)
Holland (Dubois Co.) ― colloquial name for the Netherlands
Ireland (Dubois Co.)
Jordan (Owen Co.)
Lebanon (Boone Co.)
Macedonia (Harrison Co.) — Historically named Macedonia, the Southeast European country is now officially known as North Macedonia per the Treaty of Prespa.
Mexico (Miami Co.)
Morocco (Newton Co.)
New Lebanon (Sullivan Co.)
Norway (White Co.)
Panama (Steuben Co.)
Peru (Miami Co.)
Poland (Clay Co.)
Syria (Orange Co.)
Angola (Steuben Co.)