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Clarksville is a town in Clark County, Indiana, along the Ohio River. The population was 21,400 at the 2000 census.

Clarksville has the largest exposed fossil beds from the Devonian period and the state has built an education center and declared the area, alongside the Ohio River and bordering Kentucky, the Falls of the Ohio State Park. These fossils include plant and marine life from a pre-historic coral reef. The Falls is also where John James Audubon did many of his bird fieldbook sketches.

Clarksville is named for American Revolutionary War General George Rogers Clark who lived for a time on a point of land on the Ohio River. Founded in 1783, the town is believed to be the first true American settlement in the Northwest Territory.

Clarksville is located at 381843N, 85462W (38.311885, -85.767265)GR1.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 26.4 km (10.2 mi). 26.1 km (10.1 mi) of it is land and 0.2 km (0.1 mi) of it (0.79%) is water.