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Huntington County was organized effective December 2, 1834, and was named in honor of Samuel Huntington, a delegate to the Continental Congress from Connecticut and one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Captain Elias Murray, then a member of the state legislature, proposed the name. The population of the county in 1840 was 1,579 and had grown to 38,075 by 2000. The county covers twenty-four miles from north to south and sixteen from east to west and contains 384 square miles. This data obtained from www.countyhistory.com. In 2002 Huntington County had a per capita personal income (PCPI) of $25,715. This PCPI ranked 33rd in the state and was 92 percent of the state average of $28,032, and 83 percent of the national average of $30,906. The 2002 PCPI reflected an increase of 0.6 percent from 2001. For the state, PCPI increased 1.5 percent from 2001-2002, and the national change was 1.2 percent. In 1992 the PCPI of Huntington County was $18,339 and ranked 23rd in the state. Huntington County ’s average annual growth rate of PCPI was 3.4 percent from 1992-2002. The average annual growth rate for the state was 3.9 percent and for the nation was 4.0 percent for the same period. This data provided by the Bureau of Economic Analysis BEAR Facts. www.bea.gov/bea/regional/bearfacts |
