Editing Tipton County, Indiana (section)

==Economy==
Tipton County's economy is supported by a labor force of about 7700 workers with an unemployment rate in December 2015 of 3.8%.<ref>{{cite web|author=STATS Indiana|url=http://www.stats.indiana.edu/profiles/profiles.asp?scope_choice=a&county_changer=18159&button1=Get+Profile&id=2&page_path=Area+Profiles&path_id=11&panel_number=1|title=InDepth Profile: Tipton County IN|access-date=February 22, 2016|publisher=Indiana Business Research Center}}</ref>

===Agriculture===
Historically, Tipton County's economy has been agriculturally based. In 1914, the county had 2,067 working [[farm]]s and 166,400 acres of farm land.{{sfn|Pershing|1914|p=214}} The early settlers raised corn, wheat, oats, rye, [[flax]], and potatoes, with alfalfa in the prairie areas.{{sfn|Pershing|1914|p=215}} Fruit was profitable in the county before 1880, but blight lessened yield and fruit growing nearly halted.{{sfn|Pershing|1914|p=219}} The Tipton County Agricultural Society was organized in August 1855. They held the first county [[fair]] that October. It was described as a "failure," and was followed by another unsuccessful fair the following year. That organization was dissolved, another formed, only to be dissolved again. A third organization, the Tipton County Joint-Stock Agricultural Society formed in 1874.{{sfn|Pershing|1914|p=221}} That organization eventually failed and finally, the Tipton County Fair Company was formed in 1879.{{sfn|Pershing|1914|p=222}} By the early 20th century, corn and wheat were primary crops.{{sfn|Pershing|1914|p=216}}

===Banking===
Vickrey Bank, founded in the 1880s, was the county's first bank. It became Union Bank, and later Farmers Loan and Trust. In 1876, the Tipton County Bank was founded. It merged with First National Bank in 1902. Other county banks included Citizens National Bank (1898), Farmers Loan and Trust Company (1906), People's State Bank (1892), Sharpsville Bank (1902), and State Bank of Kempton (1900). None of these banks exists today. [[First Farmers Bank & Trust|Farmers' State Bank]] was formed in 1914 and remains in business today as First Farmers Bank & Trust.{{sfn|Pershing|1914|p=237}}