Gazetteer/Almanac
Headnote
SPENCER COUNTY, situated on the southerly boundary of Indiana, with Ohio river on the south. Area, 400 square miles. Face of the country, hilly and broken; soil, fertile. Seat of justice, Rockport. Pop. in 1820, 1,882; in 1830, 3,196; in 1840, 6,305; in 1850, 8,620. (Fanning's, 1853)