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County in Indiana, United States

According to the 2020 United States Census, its population was 16,479. The county has two incorporated cities and six incorporated towns, as well as many small unincorporated communities. It is divided into eleven townships which provide local services. An interstate highway, two U. S. Routes and five Indiana state roads cross the county, as does a major railroad line.

Indiana was granted statehood near the end of 1816. The first non indigenous settler in the future Fountain County is thought to have been a Mr. Forbes, who arrived in early 1823 and was soon followed by others. The legislative act creating Fountain County was passed on December 30, 1825, setting an effective date of April 1, 1826. The county's boundaries have remained unchanged since that time. It was named for Major James Fontaine of Kentucky who was killed at Harmar's Defeat (near modern Fort Wayne, Indiana) on October 22, 1790, during the Northwest Indian War. The first Fountain County courthouse was a two story frame building constructed in Covington in 1827; Abraham Griffith submitted the winning bid of $335. In 1829, plans were made for a larger courthouse building, but then an act of the legislature called for the county seat to be moved. In the end it was decided that the county seat should remain in Covington, and the brick courthouse was completed in 1833. A third courthouse was commissioned in 1856, and was completed in 1857 at a cost of $33,500.#tag:ref|A $33,500 capital expense in 1857 would be roughly equivalent to $10,900,000 in 2009. The current courthouse was built in 1936–37 at a cost of $246,734;#tag:ref|A $246,734 capital expense in 1936 would be roughly equivalent to $17,300,000 in 2009. Digging on the Wabash and Erie Canal began in 1832 and worked southwest; it reached Lafayette by 1842. In 1846 it reached Covington, and by 1847 traffic was moving through the county via the canal. Completion of the county's first railroad line in the 1850s heralded an end to the canal's usefulness, and in 1875 the last canal boat passed through Covington. The first railway line through the county was the Toledo, Wabash and Western Railway (later the Wabash Railroad) which was built from the east across the northern part of the county and reached Attica in 1856; it continued west through Warren County and reached the Illinois state line the following year. The Indianapolis, Crawfordsville and Danville Railroad (later the Indiana, Bloomington and Western Railway), was started in 1855, but the general state of the economy halted construction in 1858. It was completed by another owner in 1870, and traffic started in 1871. It passed through Covington, Veedersburg and Hillsboro.

Fountain County's northern and western borders are defined by the Wabash River which flows southwesterly out of Tippecanoe County. According to the 2010 United States Census, the county has a total area of 397.88 square miles (1,031 km2), of which 395.66 square miles (1,025 km2) (or 99.44%) is land and 2.22 square miles (6 km2) (or 0.56%) is water. The Portland Arch Nature Preserve and the Miller Campbell Memorial Tract, a preserve managed by the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, are located adjacent to the Wabash River.

[[Interstate 74 (Indiana) runs east–west through the middle of Fountain County. [[U. S. Route 136 (Indiana) follows the same general east–west route of I 74 through the county; in the eastern part it runs on the south side of the interstate, but crosses to the north side between Veedersburg and Covington. [[U. S. Route 41 in Indiana runs north–south through the county, passing through Attica and Veedersburg. Three east–west state roads cross the county. [[State Road 28 (Indiana) enters Attica from Warren County and crosses the north end of the county. [[State Road 32 (Indiana) enters the middle of the county from Perrysville to the west and passes through Fountain County on its way to Crawfordsville to the east. [[State Road 234 (Indiana), further to the south, enters from Cayuga to the west and passes east through Kingman. Two north–south state roads run through the county. [[State Road 55 (Indiana) passes through Attica and shares the route of US Route 41 running goes south. At Rob Roy it turns to run southeast through Newton. [[State Road 341 (Indiana) starts at State Road 28 in the north and runs south, ending at State Road 234.

Fountain County is in the humid continental climate region of the United States along with most of Indiana. Its Köppen climate classification is Dfa, meaning that it is cold, has no dry season, and has a hot summer. In recent years, average temperatures in the county seat of Covington have ranged from a low of in January to a high of in July, although a record low of was recorded in January 1994 and a record high of was recorded in August 1988. Average monthly precipitation ranged from inches in February to inches in June.

As of the 2010 United States Census, there were 17,240 people, 6,935 households, and 4,787 families in the county. The population density was There were 7,865 housing units at an average density of The racial makeup of the county was 97.5% white, 0.2% black or African American, 0.3% Native American, 0.2% Asian, 0.0% Pacific Islander, 0.8% from other races, and 1.0% from two or more races. Those of Hispanic or Latino origin made up 2.2% of the population. Of the 6,935 households, 31.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 54.7% were married couples living together, 10.0% had a female householder with no husband present, 31.0% were non families, and 26.7% of all households were made up of individuals. The average household size was 2.46 and the average family size was 2.95. The median age was 41.6 years.