Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 18% of U.S. towns · #548 of 593 in Indiana. What drives it
Most of Marrs Township was built recently: 5% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1981. Below: maps from 1917 on and the census since 1890.
More historic than 18% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Marrs Township is more historic than 18% of U.S. towns, #548 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 Marrs 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.
Four 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).
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Marrs Township’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Marrs 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 Marrs Township.
From Wikipedia’s history of Marrs Township.
Marrs Township was organized in 1817. The township was named for Samuel R. Marrs, a pioneer settler and afterward county commissioner.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Marrs Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
The first terms of the Commissioner's Court were held at the house of Wm. E. Hutcheson, in Marrs Township, near the former site of the town of Blackford. A BELLIGERENT LAWYER AND THE JUDGE OF 1 834, On the 8th of March, 1834, the indignation of the members of the bar of the county was aroused by an act of one of the legal fraternity, and as a result the following document was written and placed upon the records of the court :
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 SurveyWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Grew from 2,066 people in 1890 to 5,388 in 2020.
14 censuses, 1890–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Marrs Township’s Wikipedia page.
Nobody well known was born in Marrs Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Marrs Township is more historic than 18% of U.S. towns, #548 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.
5% of Marrs Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±3.1 points), against a typical 14% for an Indiana town; the median home was built in 1981.
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 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.
