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| | Posey County, Indiana History and Genealogy Research Guide and Links |
 | | It is in the extreme Northern part of the County, comprises a great deal of superior soil, and, in 1880, had under cultivation 4,993 acres of land, which produced 53,650 busels of wheat and 80,011 bushels of corn, averaging fifteen of the former and thirty-five bushels per acre of the latter cereal. |
| | It is the wealthiest township in the county, and, in 1880, had under cultivation 43,007 acres of land, the yield of wheat and corn per acre averaging respectively fifteen and thirty-five bushels. |
| | Smith was the first of the townships in the Northern part of the County to secure the advantages of railway communication, a subsidy being voted to the E. and T. for an extension of its line from Owensville, in Gibson County, to Cynthiana, in that township, in 1880. |
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