Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 47% of U.S. towns. What drives it
Below: maps from 1986 on and old-book passages.
Clear Creek Township was named from Clear Creek, the largest stream within its borders.
More historic than 47% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Clear Creek Township is more historic than 47% of U.S. towns. 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 Clear Creek 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 Clear Creek Township’s history is told.
From Wikipedia’s history of Clear Creek Township.
Clear Creek Township was organized in 1838. It was named from Clear Creek, the largest stream within its borders.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Clear Creek Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Clear Creek Township is without a railroad and is primarily an agricultural community. The value of taxable property in 1913 was $1,414,940. Goblesville is the only village in the township. It is situ-
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and the following story is told of the manner in which it received that name : Some years before, William Stults was engaged in teaching “singing schools” in different parts of the county. One of his classes was in Clear Creek Township, near the eastern boundary, another was at the schoolhouse a short distance southwest of Goblesville, and a third was at the schoolhouse where Bippus now stands. As this was the most western of his classes, Mr. Stults was in the habit of referring to it as “West Point,” and when the station was located there that name was
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.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Clear Creek Township.
1986Wabash sheet · 1:100,000U.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.
Nobody well known was born in Clear Creek Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Another post office, Goblesville, opened and closed inside today’s town.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Clear Creek Township is more historic than 47% of U.S. towns. 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.
22% of Clear Creek Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±8.9 points), against a typical 14% for an Indiana town; the median home was built in 1983.
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 Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), 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.