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Versailles / v ər ˈ s eɪ l z / is a town in Johnson Township, Ripley County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. [2] The population was 2,113 at the 2010 census . The town is the county seat of Ripley County.
The county seat of Ripley County is Versailles, Indiana. It was selected as the county seat in 1818, and was laid out in 1819. According to the 2010 census, the county has a total area of 448.06 square miles (1,160.5 km 2), of which 446.43 square miles (1,156.2 km 2) (or 99.64%) is land and 1.64 square miles (4.2 km 2) (or 0.37%) is water.
Versailles State Park (pronounced locally as ver-SAYLES) is an Indiana state park, near the town of Versailles, Indiana in Ripley County. The land was given by the National Park Service for use as a state park to Indiana's Department of Conservation in 1943. [2] The park draws about 225,000 visitors annually. [1]
And it's not just water. Indiana's decisions also could affect wildlife throughout the watershed, Boritt said, including the more than 80 species of Great Lakes fish that rely on wetlands to spawn
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Jul. 29—State officials plan to pipe billions of gallons of water from an aquifer below the Wabash River to Lebanon to supply the LEAP Lebanon Innovation District. The Indiana Economic ...
Versailles, Ripley County: 1885 176 feet (54 m) Laugher Creek Howe truss: Located at Versailles State Park. Cades Mill Bridge: Steam Corner, Fountain County: 1854 150 feet (46 m) Coal Creek Howe truss: Oldest bridge in the state Cataract Covered Bridge: Cataract, Owen County: 1876 140 feet (43 m) Mill Creek Smith Type IV Truss: Catlin Bridge
The Laughery Creek Bridge aka Triple Whipple Bridge was built in 1878 and is the last triple-intersection Pratt truss bridge in the United States.. Laughery Creek is an 88.6-mile-long (142.6 km) [2] stream that flows through Ripley, Dearborn, and Ohio counties in southeastern Indiana, and is a tributary of the Ohio River.