Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1958 on, and the census since 1880.
The Fillmore post office opened in 1861, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Nicholsonville (1849), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
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 Fillmore’s history is told.
From Wikipedia’s history of Fillmore.
An old variant name of the community was called Nicholsonville. A post office was established under this name in 1849, and was renamed to Fillmore in 1861, where it is still currently operating.
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Passages that mention Fillmore, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Fillmore, the only village in the township, is on the Terre Haute & Indianapolis railroad, six miles northeast of Greencastle. It was laid out in 1852 by Benjamin Nicholson, James Sill and Leonard C. Catterlin, on land then owned by them, but formerly forming a part of Richard Sinclair's fami.
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never returned to the institution. Having always been drawn to the study of medicine, he determined now to prepare himself for that profession and, to that end. entered the ofiice of Dr. William C. Hopwood. a physician in the village of Fillmore, where he was a diligent and observing student for almost three years. In the fall of 1859 he attended his first course of lectures at Rush Medical College in Chicago. In the summer of i860 he entered upon the practice in Fillmore and from the first impressed all those with whom he came in contact with his skill and qualifications for the profession he had
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.
In the archiveGreetings from White Oak Farm, R.R. 1, located 32 miles west of Indianapolis and 38 miles…
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyOne decade in the archive so far: the 1940s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Fillmore. 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 Fillmore.
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Fillmore’s page.
Retake this view · +15Between 180 and 545 people in every census since 1880.
5 censuses, 1880–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Fillmore’s Wikipedia page.
Fillmore’s post office has been open since 1861. Another post office, Nicholsonville, 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).
The Fillmore post office opened in 1861, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
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 (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.
