Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
1 place in town is on the National Register, among them a historic district with 23 buildings. Below: maps from 1896 on and the census since 1860.
The Pierceton post office opened in 1853, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Deed's Creek (1850), 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 Pierceton’s history is told.
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Fire insurance maps drew every building, what it was made of and what it was used for, so insurers could price the risk of fire. Pick a year, then a sheet.
1896Sheet 1 of 2Sanborn Map Company, via the Library of Congress. Editions published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
From Wikipedia’s history of Pierceton.
In 1853, John Butler Chapman and Lewis Keith, his father-in-law, employed Otho Means, a surveyor, to lay out Pierceton as it is located today, christened in honor of President Franklin Pierce. The Pierceton post office was established in 1853.
The Pierceton Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.
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Passages that mention Pierceton, cut from the printed page as they were published.
he resigned to take up the study of law Admitted to the bar in Kosciusko County in 1905, Mr. Longfellow began practice at South Bend, but was there only a short time before he located in Pierceton. Pierceton was his home from January 1, 1906, to January 1, 1915, and at the latter date he came to Warsaw to fill the office of prosecuting attorney, to which he had been elected in 1914.
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was a man of splendid education, a teacher and a minister of the Gospel. Mrs. Wince taught school for many years, has gardened and raised small fruits on a small scale, has marketed both vegetables and fruit in the Town of Pierceton, and this brief statement would account for the external facts of her life. However, the people that know her best care least for these external circumstances, and love her for those deep and intimate attributes which are not capable of description. She has always been a prohibitionist and wrote the first
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was a man of splendid education, a teacher and a minister of the Gospel. Mrs. Wince taught school for many years, has gardened and raised small fruits on a small .scale, has marketed both vegetables and fruit in the Town of Pierceton, and this brief statement would account for the external facts of her life. However, the people that know her best care least for these external circumstances, and love her for those deep and intimate attributes which are not capable of description. She has alwa.ys been a prohibitionist and wrote the first
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spent nearly all his life in Kosciusko County, and for a number of: years was a very successful and talented teacher. He is now proprietor of the Stony Brook Farm in Monroe Township near Pierceton, and is performing that service which means so much in this present critical time, supplying a large quantity of pure milk to the community of Pierceton.
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.
Born hereLemuel W. Royse is born here
Born hereGene E. Likens is born here
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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2012Pierceton, IndianaEvery edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Pierceton. 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 Pierceton.
Between 293 and 1,186 people in every census since 1860.
17 censuses, 1860–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Pierceton’s Wikipedia page.
Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.
Pierceton’s post office has been open since 1853. Another post office, Deed's Creek, 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 Pierceton post office opened in 1853, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
One place: the Pierceton Historic District (listed 1992).
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 →
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