Addresses for County Courthouse and IRAD:

Established:		February 15, 1839 as Dane County (Laws, 1839, p. 104)
		Name changed to Christian County in 1840.
Origin of the name of the county:
	Named after Christian County in Kentucky through the influence of emigrants from that county.
Present area, or parts of it, formerly included in:
	1821–1839	Sangamon
	1827–1839	Shelby
	1821–1839	Montgomery
	1821–1827	Fayette
	1819–1821	Clark
	1817–1821	Bond
	1816–1819	Crawford
	1812–1817	Madison
	1815–1816	Edwards
	1790–1812	St. Clair
	1790–1801	Knox, Northwest Territory
County Seat:
	1839–	Taylorville
History of county governing board:
	1839–1849	County Commissioners’ Court
	1849–1866	County Court
	1866–	County Board of Supervisors
Township Government
	Adopted:	November 7, 1865
Township Names:
	Assumption
	Bear Creek
	Buckhart
	Greenwood	Name changed from Nevada (no date).
	Johnson	Name changed from Douglas (no date).
	King
	Locust
	May	Name changed from Smith to Howard, then Penn, and finally to May (no date).
	Mosquito
	Mt. Auburn
	Pana
	Prairieton	Name changed from Adams (no date).
	Ricks
	Rosamond	Name changed from Rosemund (no date).
	South Fork
	Stonington
	Taylorville