Pike County, IN 1870 Federal Census TOWNSHIPS STATUS of the files on-line for this census in the following directory: http://www.us-census.org/pub/usgenweb/census/in/pike/1870/ ABOUT PIKE COUNTY: On December 21, 1816 - ten days after Indiana was admitted to the Federal Union as a state - the Indiana state legislature authorized the creation of Pike County, taking areas from Gibson, Knox, and Perry counties. It was named for Zebulon Pike, famous for his Pike Expedition of 1806-1807. Pike's Peak was named after him. Microfilm Roll# M593-530 ====================================================================================== TOWNSHIP STAMPED STATUS DESCRIPTION PAGE#-RANGE TRANSCRIBER PROOFREADER ====================================================================================== On-Line Clay 428A-437B Lynelle Swensen Robert E. Lane On-Line Jefferson 438A-465A Lynelle Swensen Robert E. Lane On-Line Lockhart 466A-488B Lynelle Swensen Robert E. Lane . Logan 490A-501B . . . Madison 502A-511A . . . Marion 512A-529B . . . Monroe 530A-552B . . . Patoka 554A-575B . . . Petersburg Town 594A-605B . . . Washington 576A-593B . . ====================================================================================== This Census was partially transcribed by Lynelle Swensen and proofread by Robert E. Lane for The USGenWeb Census Project®, http://www.us-census.org/ ====================================================================================== If you would like to transcribe one of the available townships for this census, please fill out and submit a Transcriber Volunteer Form at: https://www.us-census.org/signup/signupform.html ======================================================================================