Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 16% of U.S. towns · #558 of 593 in Indiana. What drives it
Most of Brown Township was built recently: 5% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 2000. Below: maps from 1953 on and old-book passages.
More historic than 16% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Brown Township is more historic than 16% of U.S. towns, #558 of 593 in Indiana. Its share of homes from before 1940 holds the grade up; its National Register listings pull it down.
Indiana towns list more on the Register than most of the country (a typical Indiana town has 7.9 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Brown Township’s 0.0 sits below most of its state (22% of Indiana towns have fewer) while its 0 listings outnumber those of 23% of U.S. towns.
Founding year: our sources. Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Brown Township’s history is told.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Brown Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Brown Township is one of twelve townships in Hendricks County, Indiana, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population was 11,593.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 11,593 to 14,316 (+23%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Brown Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Brown is so situated as to have neither railroad station, town, nor postoffice within its borders. There are two churches — one Methodist Episcopal and one Missionary Baptist. More persons of foreign birth reside in Brown Township than in any other town- ' ship in Hendricks County. In the central part is a very large settlement of Irish, to whose enterprise and industry the county owes the reclamation of a considerable area of valuable lands from (470)
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Brown Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Brown Township.
Nobody well known was born in Brown Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Brown Township is more historic than 16% of U.S. towns, #558 of 593 in Indiana. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
5% of Brown Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±2.5 points), against a typical 14% for an Indiana town; the median home was built in 2000.
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
From U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
