The story
Read it all →How Eagle Creek Township came to be
From Wikipedia’s history of Eagle Creek Township.
The Kingsbury-Doak Farmhouse was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
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Quick answers
How Eagle Creek Township began
When was Eagle Creek Township founded?
1838
The Eagle Creek Township post office opened in 1838, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Eagle Creek (1838), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
First census: 647 in 18902020 census: 1,719188 years
How historic is Eagle Creek Township?
B−
What drives the grade ↓More historic than 52% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
Founding year: the first Eagle Creek Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓
History grade
What drives Eagle Creek Township’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Eagle Creek Township is more historic than 52% of U.S. towns. Its age holds the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls it down.
B−
HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Eagle Creek Township’s overall grade.
Founding era1838, from the first post office: founded 1776–1849, an older era than 75% of U.S. townsA−Homes built before 19403.3% of homes (±3.3) · typical IN town 14.4% · U.S. 8.4%C−National Register1 listing, 5.7 per 10,000 residents · typical IN town 7.9 · U.S. 2.4B−
All U.S. towns we grade (21,289)Ahead of 52%
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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 Eagle Creek Township’s 5.7 sits near the middle of its state (56% of Indiana towns have fewer) while its 1 listings outnumber those of 51% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from C to B+. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±3.3 points). The founding year is the first post office, not a stated founding date.
Founding year: the first post office (other dates in Quick answers). 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 Eagle 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 Eagle 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 Eagle Creek Township, and 4 old place names are still on the map.Deep rootsA post office since 1838: 188 years of Eagle Creek Township.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Eagle 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, Eagle Creek, opened and closed inside today’s town.
Hamlets and corners on the map
Apple Valley EstatesDinwiddieRange LineSoutheast Grove
1cemetery inside Eagle Creek Township
Plum Grove
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Timeline
Eagle Creek Township, 1838 to 1953
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
- 19th century
- 1838Post officeThe Eagle Creek post office opens
- 1868Post officeThe Eagle Creek post office closes
- 20th century
- 1953
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
From the old history books
What they wrote about Eagle Creek Township in 1915
Passages that mention Eagle Creek Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
A standard history of Lake County, Indiana, and the Calumet region1915 · page 199Read the page →
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Winfield was set off in 1843, but then included the four eastern tiers of sections of what is now Ross Township, and was not reduced to substantially its present area until the creation of the latter in 1848. It subsequently donated three sections to Eagle Creek Township.
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A standard history of Lake County, Indiana, and the Calumet region1915 · page 160Read the page →
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places in the southern and central parts of the county. Such activities are of the greatest benefit to the residents of rural communities, and no section of Lake County has developed them more persistently and to better advantage than the citizens of Eagle Creek Township. Tpie Turners, Dinwiudies and Pearces Among the most prominent of the pioneers of Eagle Township were the Turners, the Dinwiddies and the Pearces. In the general history of the county's settlement the location of Judge Samuel Turner and his
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.
By decade
Eagle Creek Township, decade by decade
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2019On the map
Eagle Creek Township on the map, 1953 to 1992
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Eagle Creek Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1953Leroy sheet · 1:24,000U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Eagle Creek Township.
On the National Register
1 historic place in Eagle 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
2005
Kingsbury-Doak Farmhouse
Buildings
Architectural styles listings
Late Victorian1
Italianate1
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
People over time
Eagle Creek Township, census by census
Grew from 647 people in 1890 to 1,719 in 2020.
14 censuses, 1890–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Eagle Creek Township’s Wikipedia page.
Famous people
See all →Famous people close to Eagle Creek Township
Nobody well known was born in Eagle 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 Eagle Creek Township’s history
What year was Eagle Creek Township founded?
The Eagle Creek Township post office opened in 1838, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
How does Eagle Creek Township rank for history?
Eagle Creek Township is more historic than 52% 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.
What is on the National Register in Eagle Creek Township?
One place: the Kingsbury-Doak Farmhouse (listed 2005).
How old are the homes in Eagle Creek Township?
3% of Eagle Creek Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±3.3 points), against a typical 14% for an Indiana town; the median home was built in 1992.
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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 Wikimedia Commons (10), the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, 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 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.