Addresses for County Courthouse and IRAD:

Established:		February 15, 1831 (Laws, 1831, p. 51)
		County organization was completed on December 19, 1834.
Origin of the name of the county:
	Named for William Jasper, a Sergeant of the Revolution who, during the action in Charleston harbor, replaced the flag shot away at Fort Moultrie, and later was killed at Savannah in 1779.
Present area, or parts of it, formerly included in:
	1816–1831	Crawford
	1824–1821	Clay
	1815–1816	Edwards
	1812–1815	Madison
	1803–1812	Randolph
	1801–1812	St. Clair
	1790–1801	Knox, Northwest Territory
County Seat:
	1835–	Newton
History of county governing board:
	1834–1849	County Commissioners’ Court
	1849–1860	County Court
	1860–	County Board of Supervisors
Township Organization
	Adopted:	November 8, 1859
		Note: Jasper County approved township organization on November 6, 1849, and the County Court even appointed commissioners to divide the county into townships, but this organization was never completed. The commissioners’ report of 1850 divided the county into six townships (see below).
Township Names under 1859 Organization:
	Crooked Creek
	Fox	Created from western part of Ste. Marie (date unknown, before 1901).
	Grandville
	Grove	Name changed from Union in September, 1860.
	Hunt City	Formed from Willow Hill, Crooked Creek and Grandville on September 11, 1901.
	North Muddy
	Sainte Marie
	Smallwood
	South Muddy
	Wade	Name changed from Newton in September, 1860.
	Willow Hill
Township Names under the 1849 Failed Organization:
	Island Grove	Corresponds approximately to present day Grove.
	Marion	Corresponds approximately to present day Crooked Creek.
	Muddy	Corresponds to present day North and South Muddy.
	North Fork	Corresponds approximately to present day Grandville.
	Polk	Corresponds approximately to present day Willow Hill.
	Sainte Marie	Included present day Ste. Marie and Fox.