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More historic than 20% of U.S. towns · #534 of 593 in Indiana. What drives it
Most of Jackson Township was built recently: 7% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1990. Below: maps from 1953 on and the census since 1890.
More historic than 20% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Jackson Township is more historic than 20% of U.S. towns, #534 of 593 in Indiana. Its share of homes from before 1940 holds the grade up; its National Register listings pull it down.
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 Jackson Township’s 0.0 sits below most of its state (22% of Indiana towns have fewer) while its 0 listings outnumber those of 23% of U.S. towns.
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 →
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 Jackson Township’s history is told.
Lost a third of its people between 1890 and 1930, then grew 8-fold.
14 censuses, 1890–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Jackson Township’s Wikipedia page.
Two other post offices 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).
From Wikipedia’s history of Jackson Township.
Jackson Township was organized in 1836, and most likely named after President Andrew Jackson, although, after that name became controversial in the 1840s, a latter (1883) account says it was named for Lemuel Jackson, a pioneer settler.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Jackson Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Township practically all her life and has seen it change from a forest of heavy timber abounding with wild game to the Jackson Township of 1915. At that time there were no churches in the township and but one school house. This was made of logs and stood on the ground)
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 Survey
2025Quakerdom School Souvenir, 1920 - Jackson Township, P…
2021Scene on Highway 6, 1956 - Jackson Township, Porter C…Postcard
2020Residence of Richard Hill, 1876 - Jackson Township, P…
2020Residence and Mill of Colonel I. C. B. Suman, 1876 - …
2019Jackson Center High School, 1910 - Jackson Township, …Postcard
2017Noble's Barbecue, 1939 - Jackson Township, Porter Cou…Postcard
2016Noble's Tourist Court, 1955 - Jackson Township, Porte…Postcard
2014Suman Cornet Band, circa 1910 - Suman, IndianaPostcard
2012Boeing 247, NC13304, First Airplane to be Sabotaged, …Postcard
2011Jackson Center School, Circa 1915 - Jackson Township,…
2009Jackson Twp (Soy field) Porter County Indiana
2009Noble's Tourist Court, circa 1945 - Jackson Township,…Postcard
2009Noble's Tourist Court - Jackson Township, Porter Coun…Postcard
2003Jackson Center School, circa 1915 - Jackson Township,…
2003Jackson Center Church - Jackson Township, Porter Coun…Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Jackson Township. 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 Jackson Township.
Nobody well known was born in Jackson Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Jackson Township is more historic than 20% of U.S. towns, #534 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.
7% of Jackson 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 1990.
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).
From Wikimedia Commons (15), 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.
