Wells County Economic Development

The Wells County Auditor's Office in Bluffton, Indiana, is dedicated to providing professional and courteous service to the public while managing vital county records and finances. Their responsibilities include overseeing tax collection, distributing funds to governmental entities, and maintaining accurate land records through a recently launched digital archive. In addition to coordinating tax-related functions, the Auditor's Office takes on the role of County Comptroller, ensuring the proper management of public funds and maintaining compliance with state and local laws. Their commitment to historical preservation is evident in their digitization efforts to protect and provide access to important permanent records for public research. Generated from the website

A Few Facts About Adams County: Adams County is divided into 12 Civil Townships as follows: Blue Creek, French, Hartford, Jefferson, Kirkland, Monroe, Preble, Root, St. Marys, Union, Wabash and Washington. Adams County was organized March 1, 1836. A large tract of land lying between Allen and Randolph counties had been previously called Adams County, however, no organization had been effected. Decatur is the County Seat. Samuel Johnson offered as an inducement to have the county seat located on his land, the sum of $3, 100, four church lots, half an acre for a public square, one acre for a seminary and two acres for a cemetery. He further agreed to pay the expenses of the locating commissioners, and furnish a house to hold court in until suitable buildings could be erected. The county commissioners promptly accepted the offer "and proceeded to the aforesaid town site, and marked a white oak tree with blazes on four sides, on each of which they individually inscribed their names." Decatur was probably named in honor of Commodore Stephen Decatur and in 1849 it had seventy houses ( three of which were brick, twenty-one frame and the remainder of logs ) with a population of about 400.