Unattended Death and Biohazard Cleanup in Linton, IN

Linton is a city in Stockton Township, Greene County, in southwestern Indiana southeast of Terre Haute, and it is the largest city in Greene County.

Merchant John W. Wines first sold goods in the Linton area in 1831 and returned to open a general store there in 1837.

Linton was officially chartered and named in June 1850, laid out by Hannah E. Osborn and Isaac V. Coddington.

Linton had 5,133 residents at the 2020 census, down from 5,413 in 2010, and Census Bureau survey estimates count about 2,308 households in the city.

Linton grew up as a coal-mining city, and around 1900, in the height of its underground mining era, its population was larger than it is today.

In the freewheeling 1920s, Linton reportedly had at least 35 bars and at least 35 churches at the same time.

General Electric built a factory in Linton in 1952 that employed several hundred people until the mid-1980s.

The 1930 census mean center of population of the United States fell in Greene County near Linton, the only time the national marker has been located in Indiana.

Linton's weeklong Freedom Festival hosts what is billed as Indiana's largest Independence Day parade, drawing nearly 40,000 visitors to a city of about 5,000.

Just south of Linton, the Goose Pond Fish and Wildlife Area protects about 9,000 acres of restored prairie and marsh, one of the largest wetland restoration sites in the United States.