BlockReeve Township
The complete chapter on this township from History of Knox and Daviess County, Indiana : from the Earliest Time to the Present; with Biographical Sketches, Reminiscences, Notes, Etc. ; Together with an Extended History of the Colonial Days of Vincennes, and Its Progress Down to the Formation of the State Government, published 1886. 321 words, covering 3 settlements. Source changes inside the text are labelled at the exact paragraph where the next book begins.
Contents
1 sectionThe section headings the book prints inside this chapter. Each one jumps to where it begins.
The modern record here
3 settlementsWhat the federal record holds for each settlement inside this township: wildfires and storm reports since the 1950s, mineral workings, and museum specimens collected nearby. These are counted within a few miles of each settlement, so neighbours share them and the columns are deliberately not added up. Every row links to the settlement's own page, where each figure is broken out.
| Settlement | Fires | Storm reports | Mines and quarries | Specimens |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alfordsville | - | 6 | 4 | - |
| Corning | - | 1 | 4 | - |
| Pennyville | - | 2 | 4 | - |
Settlements in this township
3 placesEvery populated place the Geographic Names Information System records inside this township's Census boundary. None of the 3 is named in the chapter: they were founded later or were never more than a post office.
The chapter
321 wordsReproduced complete and unedited from History of Knox and Daviess County, Indiana : from the Earliest Time to the Present; with Biographical Sketches, Reminiscences, Notes, Etc. ; Together with an Extended History of the Colonial Days of Vincennes, and Its Progress Down to the Formation of the State Government, published 1886. The text is machine-read from scans, so expect recognition errors: misspelled names, dropped words, and stray characters. Nothing has been corrected, because correcting a proper name invents one. The headings below are the books' own; source changes are labelled in place.
Reeve Township
The name of the first settler in this township is perpetuated in its name. He was Joshua Reeve, from South Carolina, who came to this part of Daviess County in 1807. He was an enterprising and active pioneer, as is shown by his having blazed a trace from his home in this township to Vincennes. James and William Alford were also very early pioneers, having come in about 1809 or 1810. James and Robert Gilley were not much if any later, nor was Peter Helpenstine, none of whom came later, probably, than 1811. "Old Bill Allen," as he was called, came about 1812, and a Mr. Kelso was also an early arrival. The first land entry was made by Joshua Reeve, April 13, 1812, and consisted of the north fraction of. Section 23, Township 1, Range 5. The next entry was made in 181-4, June 20, by Trice Stafford, he taking the southwest quarter of Section 7, in the same township and range, and on December 8, 1815, Mr. Stafford entered the northwest quarter of the same section. During the same year three other entries were made - Jacob Reeder, July 24, the north fraction of Section 21, and William Ballow, April 29, the southeast quarter of Section 8. and on September 18 the north fraction of Section 17, all in the same township and range. In 1816 the following entries were made: February 23, Joseph Hays, southeast quarter Section 15; April 19, Isaac Hollingsworth, east half of the southwest quarter Section 14; April 4, Edward Adams, southwest quarter Section 9; October 1, Caleb Brock, southeast quarter Section 10, and on the same day, Henry Foster, the Avest half of the southwest quarter, Section 10, all in Township 1, Range 5. From this time on settlements and land entries were more frequent, and the township has since kept pace with the rest of the county in the general march of prog-
Provenance
Text from History of Knox and Daviess County, Indiana : from the Earliest Time to the Present; with Biographical Sketches, Reminiscences, Notes, Etc. ; Together with an Extended History of the Colonial Days of Vincennes, and Its Progress Down to the Formation of the State Government, published 1886, in the public domain in the United States and digitised by the Internet Archive. The settlements listed against this township are matched by point-in-polygon test of each Geographic Names Information System coordinate against the Census Bureau's county subdivision boundary, not by name.