The story
Read it all →How Clear Creek Township came to be
From Wikipedia’s history of Clear Creek Township.
The post office at Clear Creek has been in operation since 1870.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
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History · Clear Creek Township
1 of Clear Creek Township’s places is on the National Register
More historic than 36% of U.S. towns · #443 of 593 in Indiana. What drives it
Its Register listing is the Joseph Mitchell House. Most of Clear Creek Township was built recently: 6% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1984. Below: maps from 1908 on.
1on the National Register
6%homes built before 1940
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About Clear Creek Township’s history
How historic is Clear Creek Township?
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What drives the grade ↓More historic than 36% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
History grade
What drives Clear Creek Township’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Clear Creek Township is more historic than 36% of U.S. towns, #443 of 593 in Indiana. Its National Register listings hold the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls it down.
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HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Clear Creek Township’s overall grade.
Founding eraAge sits out for Clear Creek Township: no founding date holds up well enough to grade on–Homes built before 19405.8% of homes (±3.7) · typical IN town 14.4% · U.S. 8.4%CNational Register1 listing, 1.9 per 10,000 residents · typical IN town 7.9 · U.S. 2.4B−
All U.S. towns we grade (21,289)Ahead of 36%
NewerOlder
Indiana towns of 2,500+ (593)Ahead of 25%
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 Clear Creek Township’s 1.9 sits near the middle of its state (48% of Indiana towns have fewer) while its 1 listings outnumber those of 51% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on two of the three inputs, so a change in either one moves the letter more than it would with three. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±3.7 points).
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 →
What stands out about Clear Creek Township’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Clear Creek Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages1 post office opened and closed inside today’s Clear Creek Township, and 3 old place names are still on the map.On the map since 19086 editions of the USGS map, 1908 to 1990. Watch Clear Creek Township change.
★ What stands out · Help out
Start Clear Creek Township’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Clear Creek Township’s history is told.
Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.Places that used to be
Lost post offices, old corners and burying grounds
Another post office, Fairfax, opened and closed inside today’s town.
Fairfax
Harrodsburg
Smithville
18301930today
Hamlets and corners on the map
FairfaxHarrodsburgSmithville
4cemeteries and burying grounds inside Clear Creek Township
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US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
On the map
Clear Creek Township on the map, 1908 to 1990
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Clear Creek Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1908Bloomington sheet · 1:62,500U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Clear Creek Township.
Timeline
Clear Creek Township, 1837 to 1908
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
By decade
No old photos in the archives yet
Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Be the first to add onePhotograph a print flat, in daylight, no flash.
Add from your albumOn the National Register
1 historic place in Clear Creek Township
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts
first listed
1986
Joseph Mitchell House
Buildings
Architectural styles listings
Federal1
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Famous people
See all →Famous people close to Clear Creek Township
Nobody well known was born in Clear Creek Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Stories next door
History across the town line
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Questions about Clear Creek Township’s history
How does Clear Creek Township rank for history?
Clear Creek Township is more historic than 36% of U.S. towns, #443 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.
What is on the National Register in Clear Creek Township?
One place: the Joseph Mitchell House (listed 1986).
How old are the homes in Clear Creek Township?
6% of Clear Creek Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±3.7 points), against a typical 14% for an Indiana town; the median home was built in 1984.
Memory lane
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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Sources
Where this page comes from
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 the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.