Kosciusko County, Indiana

Founding: 1836 (declared in 1835)
Parent county: Unorganized territory

Namesake: Tadeusz Kościuszko, Continental Army general
Seat: Warsaw (1836–)

Land area: 531 square miles

Population (2020): 80,240

Population (historic): 4,170 (1840); 17,418 (1860); 26,494 (1880); 29,109 (1900); 27,488 (1930)

Periods of population growth: pre-1840–1900; 1920–2020

Subdivisions: One city; 12 towns; 17 townships

Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 6,593 (17.3%)
Pre-1940 housing survival rate: 52.5%
Pre-1860 housing survival rate (1940): 11%

Farm housing in disrepair (1950): 6.9%

Nonfarm housing in disrepair (1950): 6.3%

Average farmhouse value (1930): $1,424
Average outbuilding value (1930): $1,248

Average farmhouse size (1940): 7 rooms
Number of farms (1920): 3,355
Average farm size (1920): 74.4 acres
Sources of settlement: Ohio and Pennsylvania

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Warsaw

Namesake: Warsaw, Poland

Founding: 1836 (platting); 1837 (post office); 1854 (incorporation)

Population (2020): 15,804

Population (historic): 304 (1850); 2,206 (1870); 3,987 (1900); 5,730 (1930)

Periods of population growth: pre-1850–2020
Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 1,294 (20.5%)

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