Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Its Register listings are the Witt-Champe-Myers House and the Dublin Friends Meeting House. Below: maps from 1886 on and the census since 1850.
Dublin dates its founding to 1830 (Wikipedia’s history). The census first counted it in 1850.
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 Dublin’s history is told.
From Wikipedia’s history of Dublin.
Dublin was laid out and platted in 1830. It is named after the city of Dublin in Ireland. A post office has been in operation at Dublin since 1833. On October 15, 1851, the Indiana Woman's Suffrage Association was created in Dublin. The Witt-Champe-Myers House was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Peaked at 1,076 in 1870; 679 people lived here in 2020.
18 censuses, 1850–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Dublin’s Wikipedia page.
Passages that mention Dublin, cut from the printed page as they were published.
And it is agreed that the remainder of money due to the several School Districts, September 8, 1870, shall be paid by the Treasurer of the town of Dublin, the amount due being eleven hundred and fifty -four dollars, and the dog tax divided to said districts, agreeably to the appropriation and division of school money by the town and Selectmen of Dublin for the year 1870, and that the town of Harrisville shall pay to the town of Dublin, the sum of two hundred and twenty-two dollars and ninety-one cents ($222.91).
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Agreement between the Towns of Dublin and Harrisville Whereas, by an act of the Legislature of 1870, entitled "An act to constitute the town of Harrisville from a part of the territory of the towns of Dublin and Nelson," approved July 2, 1870, a portion of the territory of the town of Dublin has been set off to constitute a part of the town of Harrisville; Therefore it is agreed on this seventeenth day of December, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, between Henry C. Piper, Dexter Derby and
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 SurveyEvery edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Dublin. 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 Dublin.
Fire insurance maps drew every building, what it was made of and what it was used for, so insurers could price the risk of fire. Pick a year, then a sheet.
1886Sheet 1 of 1Sanborn Map Company, via the Library of Congress. Editions published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
In 1830, according to Wikipedia’s history of the town. Dublin’s post office opened in 1833, and the census of 1850 counted 713 people here.
Two places: the Witt-Champe-Myers House (listed 1995) and the Dublin Friends Meeting House (2018).
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). How TownRatings grades history →
From Wikimedia Commons (2), the National Register of Historic Places (2), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System, Sanborn fire insurance maps (Library of Congress) 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.
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