Putnam County is a county located in the U.S. state of Indiana. As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 36,726. The county seat is Greencastle. The county was named for Israel Putnam, a hero in the French and Indian War and a general in the American Revolutionary War. The county was created in 1821 and organized in April 1822.
Greencastle is a city in Greencastle Township, Putnam County, Indiana, United States, and the county seat of Putnam County. It is located near Interstate 70 approximately halfway between Terre Haute and Indianapolis in the west-central portion of the state. The city is the home of DePauw University. The population was 9,820 at the 2020 census.
John Thomas Myers was an American politician who served 15 terms as a Republican congressman from Indiana's 7th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1967 to 1997.
Putnamville is an unincorporated community in Warren Township, Putnam County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.
Pearl Bryan was a 22-year-old pregnant American woman from Greencastle, Indiana who was found decapitated in Fort Thomas, Kentucky, in 1896. Her head was severed below the fifth vertebra. Due to the murder's gruesome nature, it achieved significant notoriety at the time. More recently, there have been claims that her ghost haunts Bobby Mackey's Music World located in Wilder, Kentucky.
Courtland Craig Gillen was an American lawyer and jurist who served one term as a U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1931 to 1933.
Greencastle Township is one of thirteen townships in Putnam County, Indiana. As of the 2020 census, its population was 12,554 and it contained 5,002 housing units. This township contains the county seat of Greencastle and is home to DePauw University, a liberal arts college of 2,300 students.
The Putnam County Jail is located in Greencastle, Indiana. It houses approximately 145 adult men and women. The jail houses three categories of inmates: county inmates awaiting trial, county inmates serving sentences of less than one year, and inmates from the Indiana Department of Correction who have been placed in the jail to relieve overcrowding in state prisons.
The West Central Conference was an IHSAA-sanctioned conference formed in 1970. The conference disbanded in 2015, as all five members joined the Western Indiana Conference.
The Western Indiana Conference is the name of two IHSAA-sanctioned conferences based in West Central Indiana. The first formed as an eight-team league that formed as a basketball league in 1944 as the West Central Conference. The league started expanding in 1945 and changed its name to the Western Indiana Conference. With consolidation forcing many membership changes in the 1970s, the conference folded at four members in 1983.
U.S. Route 231 is the longest numbered highway in Indiana, covering over 284 miles (457 km). It is a main north–south highway in the western part of the state. The southern terminus of US 231 in Indiana is at the Kentucky state line and the northern terminus is at US 41 just south of St. John. The highway is a mixture of expressway and two-lane roadway. The expressway portions exist mainly in southern Indiana and around the Lafayette-West Lafayette area, with the rest mainly being two lanes.
Rust Communications is an American privately owned media company based in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. The Southeast Missourian is its flagship publication.
Jane Louise Kelly is an American lawyer and jurist serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
Greencastle High School is a public high school located in Greencastle, Indiana. It is a part of the Greencastle Community School Corporation.
James Richard Baird is an American businessman and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Indiana's 4th congressional district since 2019. A member of the Republican Party, Baird served from 2010 to 2018 as a member of the Indiana House of Representatives and as a Putnam County commissioner from 2006 to 2010.
Jason Beau Baird is an American businessman and politician from the state of Indiana. He serves in the Indiana House of Representatives.
Winona Hazel Welch was an American bryologist. As a professor at DePauw University, she became the first female head of the botany and bacteriology department at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana.
Jalen Moore is an American professional basketball player who plays for Prishtina of the Kosovo Superleague. He played college basketball for Olney Central College and Oakland University.
The Monon Athletic Conference (MAC) is a planned, eight-member IHSAA-sanctioned conference to begin competition in the 2025–2026.
Greencastle Community School Corporation is a school district headquartered in Greencastle, Indiana.
