Editing Miami County, Indiana (section)

==History==
Indiana became a state on December 11, 1816, after being [[Indiana Territory]] for sixteen years. Originally, Indiana was part of the Northwest Territory, which was made up of land gained by the British after the [[French and Indian War]] and organized into a territory after the American Revolution.<ref>{{cite book|publisher=Everton Publishers|year=2006|location=Logan, Utah|title=The Handybook for Genealogists 11th ed.}}</ref> It was after the revolution that settlement in the area by Europeans really began. Knox territory was created in 1790 and included all of present-day Indiana and areas of Illinois. Ancestry's Red Book notes that jurisdiction in Knox territory changed due to Indian uprisings in the area from 1790 to 1810.<ref name="Alice Eichholz 1992 198–211">{{cite book|author=Alice Eichholz|publisher=Ancestry, Inc.|year=1992|location=Salt Lake City, Utah|title=Ancestry's Red Book: American State, County, & Town Sources|url=https://archive.org/details/ancestrysredbook00eich|url-access=registration|pages=[https://archive.org/details/ancestrysredbook00eich/page/198 198–211]}}</ref> In 1800, Indiana became the name of a territory. Parts of Michigan and Illinois both broke away from the territory before it became a state in 1816.

Miami County was formed in 1832 from [[Cass County, Indiana|Cass County]] and unorganized land.<ref name="Alice Eichholz 1992 198–211"/> It was named for the [[Miami tribe|Miami]], a [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] people, many of whom still live in this area.<ref>{{cite book|author=De Witt Clinton Goodrich & Charles Richard Tuttle|publisher=R. S. Peale & co.|year=1875|location=Indiana|title=An Illustrated History of the State of Indiana|url=https://archive.org/details/anillustratedhi02tuttgoog| pages=[https://archive.org/details/anillustratedhi02tuttgoog/page/n585 578]}}</ref> In 1834, Miami County widened its western border taking some area from Cass County. In 1838 a small portion of unorganized territory was added to the northeastern border, but in 1844 that area was lost to Fulton County. Miami County has been its present shape since 1844.