Dennis Wilzbacher
County Surveyor
Warrick County
Besides Warrick County’s own watershed area of plus or minus 250,000 acres, our county exchanges stormwater runoff with five other counties including Gibson, Pike, Dubois, Spencer, and Vanderburgh in southern Indiana. If elected County Surveyor I will carry out my obligations in managing and maintaining Warrick County’s majority portion of this six-county drainage area with proper utilization of appropriated funding available to our County Drainage Board. Properly managed legal drains are vital to our county’s economy and well-being, especially in the areas of agriculture, heavy industry, energy production and distribution, medicine, housing development, and infrastructure, among others.
I would also do my best to perpetuate the protection, maintenance, documentation and upgrading of Warrick’s Section / Township / Range survey grid system with its monumentation of Section Centers and Quarter Section Corners.
Additionally, I would improve upon the current system of organizing, filing, archiving, and providing accessibility to old and historical hard copy maps and aerial photographs in attempting to preserve and have available cartography and photographic evidence from the past for future reference.
I grew up on a farm in Gibson County, but I have lived and worked in Warrick County since 1974. My wife and I raised our family here, and she and I now reside on Little Ditney Hill south of Elberfeld. My education and work history, first in surveying, then heavy/highway civil construction, and finally mine management have provided me with the experience needed to discharge the duties of the Warrick County Surveyor in the best interests of our county and our neighboring counties.