Huntington County was organized effective December 2, 1834, and was named in honor of Samuel Huntington, a delegate to the Continental Congress from Connecticut and one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Captain Elias Murray, then a member of the state legislature, proposed the name. The population of the county in 1840 was 1,579 and had grown to 38,075 by 2000. The county covers twenty-four miles from north to south and sixteen from east to west and contains 384 square miles. This data obtained from www.countyhistory.com.
In 2006 Huntington had a per capita personal income (PCPI) of $28,422. This PCPI ranked 43rd in the state and was 88 percent of the state average, $32,288, and 77 percent of the national average, $36,714. The 2006 PCPI reflected an increase of 3.8 percent from 2005. The 2005-2006 state change was 4.5 percent and the national change was 5.6 percent. In 1996 the PCPI of Huntington was $21,405 and ranked 30th in the state. The 1996-2006 average annual growth rate of PCPI was 2.9 percent. The average annual growth rate for the state was 3.7 percent and for the nation was 4.3 percent.This data provided by the Bureau of Economic Analysis BEAR Facts. www.bea.gov/bea/regional/bearfacts