On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Curry Township is more historic than 65% of U.S. towns, #312 of 593 in Indiana. All 2 inputs are above most U.S. towns; its share of homes from before 1940 ranks highest and its National Register listings lowest.
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HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Curry Township’s overall grade.
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 Curry Township’s 2.9 sits near the middle of its state (50% 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 (±5.8 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 Curry Township’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Peaked at 5,300 in 1910; 3,398 people lived here in 2020.
14 censuses, 1890–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Curry Township’s Wikipedia page.
Places that used to be
Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds
Another post office, Currysville, opened and closed inside today’s town.
Hamlets and corners on the map
BaldridgeCurryvilleEast ShelburnStandardWilfred
Gone or out of use
Austin Air Ads Airportairport
4cemeteries and burying grounds inside Curry Township
Douglas ChapelEbenezerMcKinneyWestlawn
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
The story so far
Curry Township, in brief
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Curry Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Curry Township is one of nine townships in Sullivan County, Indiana, United States. As of the 2020 census, its population was 3,398 and it contained 1,543 housing units. All three of Terre Haute's television affiliates (WTWO, WTHI, and WAWV) and several radio stations have or share transmitter towers in the northern end of the township just south of Farmersburg. The township is named after William Curry, who was the area's first settler when he arrived there in 1817 from Kentucky.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 3,559 to 3,398 (-5%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Timeline
Curry Township, 1840 to 1942
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Curry Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1942Shelburn sheet · 1:24,000
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Curry Township.
On the National Register
1 historic place in Curry Township
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
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none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Famous people
Famous people close to Curry Township
Nobody well known was born in Curry Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Curry Township is more historic than 65% of U.S. towns, #312 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.
How old are the homes in Curry Township?
18% of Curry Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±5.8 points), against a typical 14% for an Indiana town; the median home was built in 1977.
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, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), 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.
