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Read it all →How Fall Creek Township came to be
From Wikipedia’s history of Fall Creek Township.
The Fall Creek Meeting House was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.
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Where Fall Creek Township’s name came from
How did Fall Creek Township get its name?
Fall Creek Township was named from its principal stream and waterfalls.
How historic is Fall Creek Township?
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What drives the grade ↓More historic than 89% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
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History grade
What drives Fall Creek Township’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Fall Creek Township is more historic than 89% of U.S. towns, #158 of 593 in Indiana. All 2 inputs are above most U.S. towns; its National Register listings ranks highest and its share of homes from before 1940 lowest.
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HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Fall Creek Township’s overall grade.
Founding eraNo founding year we can rely on, so the grade uses the other two–Homes built before 194014.4% of homes (±3.3) · typical IN town 14.4% · U.S. 8.4%BNational Register3 listings, 420 historic buildings, 271 per 10,000 residents · typical IN town 7.9 · U.S. 2.4A
All U.S. towns we grade (21,289)Ahead of 89%
NewerOlder
Indiana towns of 2,500+ (593)Ahead of 73%
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 Fall Creek Township’s 271 sits above most of its state (91% of Indiana towns have fewer) while its 420 historic buildings outnumber those of 97% 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 (±3.3 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 Fall Creek Township’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
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Start Fall Creek Township’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Fall Creek Township’s history is told.
Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.Places that used to be
Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds
Two other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.
Huntsville
Mendon
18401930today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Huntsville
Gone or out of use
Harless AirportairportPendleton Quarrymine
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Fall Creek Township
BunkerCrosley
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Timeline
Fall Creek Township, 1836 to 1953
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
- 19th century
- 1836
Born hereHarrison R. Kincaid is born here - 1847Post officeThe Huntsville post office opens
- 1849Post officeThe Mendon post office opens
- 1857
BuiltFall Creek Meeting House is built - 1859Post officeThe Mendon post office closes
- 1878Post officeThe Huntsville post office closes
- 20th century
- 1953
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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.
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Fall Creek Township on the map, 1953 to 1966
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Fall Creek Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1953Pendleton 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 Fall Creek Township.
On the National Register
3 listings protect 420 historic buildings
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
places listed
3
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
420
each building in a district counts
first listed
1997
Fall Creek Meeting House
Buildings
Architectural styles listings
Vernacular1
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Stories next door
History across the town line
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Questions about Fall Creek Township’s history
How does Fall Creek Township rank for history?
Fall Creek Township is more historic than 89% of U.S. towns, #158 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 Fall Creek Township?
3 listings: 1 building, among them the Fall Creek Meeting House (listed 1997, the first). 420 historic buildings in all.
How old are the homes in Fall Creek Township?
14% of Fall 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 1974.
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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, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, 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.