Indiana
Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Independent City or Town
- Metro Area
- Politics c. 1860?
- Don’t Know
- Unions, Organized Labor?
- Don’t Know
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Surely
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Probably
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1920 | ||||||||
| 1930 | 810 | 0 | ||||||
| 1940 | 948 | 0 | ||||||
| 1950 | 1005 | 0 | ||||||
| 1960 | ||||||||
| 1970 | 1035 | 16 | 1 | |||||
| 1980 | ||||||||
| 1990 | 1088 | 0 | ||||||
| 2000 | 1187 | 1 | ||||||
| 2010 | 1045 | 0 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Reputation
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
Poseyville is in Posey County; Mount Vernon, on the Ohio, is the county seat, has blacks while Poseyville does not.
Posey County Historical Society cites only New Harmony as sundown town. Posey County is the farthest SW county, SW of Evansville. In 1990, Mt. Vernon had 6,917 total, 262 bl. and 52 households; the entire rest of Posey County had 25,588 total, 21 bl. and 7 households; Poseyville had 0 bl., 1,088 total.