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Ohio County
Named for: Ohio River
Organized: 1844
County Seat: Rising Sun, 1844
Number of Courthouses: 1

Number	Years	Type	Detail
1	1845-Present	Stylized	Paid for Col. Abel Pepper? 40x50 (60 with Portico). Additions 1980 & 2002

The residents of Lawrenceburg were most unhappy when the Dearborn County seat was moved to the more central location of Wilmington in 1835. The southern Dearborn County town of Rising Sun whose population voted for the move to Wilmington also wanted to be a County seat. A deal was struck, that if the people of Wilmington would support the creation of the new County of Ohio with Rising Sun as the county seat, then the remaining population of Dearborn County would favor Lawrenceburg as the County seat and it could and did return to Lawrenceburg in 1843. Attempts to organize Ohio as an independent county began as early as 1817.

Some Ohio County distinctions: It has the oldest continuous use Indiana Courthouse, it is the only Indiana County to have had only one Courthouse, and it is the smallest County in the United States.