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Indiana Prevention Resource Center
GIS in Prevention
County Profiles Series, No. 4
Whitley County, Indiana
Barbara Seitz de Martinez, PhD, MLS, CPP, Project Director
The Indiana Prevention Resource Center at Indiana University is funded, in part, by a contract with the Indiana Family and Social Services
Administration, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, financially supported through HHS/Substance Abuse Mental Health Services
Administration, Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block Grant. The IPRC is operated
by the Department of Applied Health Science and The School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation.
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GIS in Prevention
County Profile Series, No. 4
Whitley County, Indiana
Barbara Seitz de Martinez, PhD, MLS, CPP
Project Director
Project Staff:
Ritika Bhawal, MPH
Ryan Chopra, MPH
Kyoungsun Heo, MPA
Tuba M. Pervin Altay, MPH
Indiana Prevention Resource Center
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Mental Health and Addiction. Indiana University accepts full Responsibility for the content of this publication. ©2005 The Trustees of
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Whitley County Map
The maps and tables in this publication were prepared using PCensus
for MapInfo and MapInfo Professional.
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Whitley County is located in Northeast Indiana and is bordered by the
following Indiana counties: Noble to the north, Allen to the east, Huntington
to the south, Wabash to the southwest, and Kosciusko to the west and
northwest. State Highways 9 and 14 and U.S. Highway 30 cross the county.
Elevation is 800 to 950 feet.
Most of the landscape is mostly slightly sloping across the north half of the
county; in the south slightly sloping land is interrupted near the southern
border by nearly flat areas. The landscape features hickory, oak, maple, birch
and beech trees. The county pertains to the Indiana and Ohio Till Plain land
resource area.
Whitley county is in the Eastern Time Zone and observes DST. Average daily
temperatures are 15٥/31٥ in January and 59٥/85٥ in July. Annual
precipitation is about 37 and snowfall about 25-40 inches. The first freeze
occurs between October 10-15, and the last freeze occurs first (October 5-10)
in the southeasterly half of the county and a bit later (October 10-15) in the
northwesterly half of the county. The last freeze is May 5-10. The growing
season lasts 148-163 days.
Agriculture is diversified. Main crops include corn for grain, soybeans, hay,
oats and winter wheat. Livestock include hens/pullets, cattle/calves, milk cows,
hogs/pigs, and sheep/lambs. About three-fourths of the land is in farms and
about three-fourths of that land is in cash crops. Important natural resources
include construction sand and gravel and forestland. Water resources include
lakes/reservoirs (including Black, Blue, Brown, Cedar, Crooked, Dollar,
Goose, Larwill, Little Cedar, Little Crooked, Loon, Mud, New, Old, Rine,
Robinson, Round, Scott, Shriner, Troy Cedar, and Wilson Lakes), thye Blue
and Eel Rivers, and several streams (Spring, Clear, Stony and Sugar Creeks).
Communities include the city of Columbia City, which is the county seat, and
the towns of Larwill and South Whitley.
Sources: Map from PCensus for MapInfo; Geographic
GIS in Prevention, County Profiles, Series 4 (2007)Notes from Indiana Facts: Flying the Colors by John
Clements, 1995.
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3. Whitley County Block Group Maps
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