Pike County, Indiana
Pike County is a county located in the Southwest part of the U.S. state of Indiana. As of 2010, the population was 12,845. It contains the geographic point representing median center of population of the United States. The county seat is Petersburg. Pike County switched to the Central Time Zone on April 2, 2006. It returned to Eastern Time Zone on November 4, 2007.
Pike County is part of the Jasper Micropolitan Statistical Area.
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“Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an
armed robber, with a pike in his hand.”
—Petrarch (1304–1374)
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—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)