Editing Knox County, Indiana (section)

==History==
In 1790, [[Winthrop Sargent]], [[Secretary of Northwest Territory]], organized Knox County, the fourth in the [[Northwest Territory]]. It was named for Major General [[Henry Knox]], who had completed his term as second [[United States Secretary of War|U.S. Secretary of War]] the previous September.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ|title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the U.S.|publisher=[[United States Government Publishing Office|GPO]]| author=Gannett, Henry|year=1905|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n176 177]}}</ref> Knox County was created prior to the formation of the [[Indiana Territory]]. When it was created, Knox County extended to Canada and encompassed all or part of the present states of Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, and Ohio. When the [[Illinois Territory]] was formed in 1809, the portions of Knox County beyond the [[Wabash River]] became [[Saint Clair County, Illinois]].

Many of Knox County townships and lots were surveyed with the French system, which employs non-cardinal compass points. Knox and [[Clark County, Indiana|Clark]] counties are the only ones laid out in this fashion.<ref>{{cite book|last=Taylor, Jr.|first=Robert M.|title=Indiana: A New Historical Guide|publisher=Indiana Historical Society|location=Indianapolis|year=1989|isbn=0-87195-048-0}}</ref>