Southwestern Indiana
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2010 Census population: 474,251 Common names: Southwest Indiana, Tri-State Area, Wabash Valley, Ohio Valley Area nicknames: The Four Rivers Area 1 Lincoln's Boyhood Home (mainly Spencer Co.), Land that Time Forgot and Keeps Forgetting 1After Ohio, Patoka, Wabash, and White Rivers or |
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Largest city Other cities |
Evansville - Jasper - Princeton - Vincennes - Washington |
| Counties | * Daviess * Dubois * Gibson * Knox * Martin * Perry * Pike * Posey * Spencer * Vanderburgh * Warrick |
1After Ohio, Patoka, Wabash, and White Rivers or
six including the Little Wabash, and Embarras Rivers
all of which join along the boundaries of Knox, Gibson,
or Posey Counties
Southwestern Indiana is an 11-county region of southern Indiana, United States located at the southernmost and westernmost part of the state. As of the 2010 census, the region's combined population is 474,251. Evansville, Indiana's third-largest city, is the primary hub for the region, as well as the primary regional hub for a tri-state area which includes Kentucky and Illinois. Other regional hubs include Jasper, Vincennes, and Washington.
Southwestern Indiana's topography is considerably more varied and complex than most of Indiana, from large tracts of forest, marshes, rolling fields, large flat valleys in the west and south, to several chains of low mountains, high hills, and sharp valleys towards the north and east. Every county in Southwestern Indiana is bounded by a river at one point, whether it be the Wabash River along the west, the Ohio River along the south, the White River, dividing the six northern counties between its two forks, or other smaller rivers. More than 50% of the boundaries of Daviess, Knox, Perry, Posey, and Spencer Counties are dictated by a river or a creek. About 80% Knox County's boundaries are dictated by either the Wabash or the White River. Additionally, over half of the area is located within the Wabash Valley Seismic Zone.
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