Most of Stampers Creek Township was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1973. Its Register listing is the Lynd School. Below: maps from 1957 on.
The Stampers Creek Township post office opened in 1855, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, Stampers Creek (1855) and Rego (1867), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
2020 census: 1,037171 years
How historic is Stampers Creek Township?
C−
More historic than 24% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
Founding year: the first Stampers Creek Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓
History grade
What drives Stampers Creek Township’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Stampers Creek Township is more historic than 24% of U.S. towns. Its National Register listings hold the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls it down.
C−
HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Stampers Creek Township’s overall grade.
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 Stampers Creek Township’s 13.9 sits above most of its state (66% of Indiana towns have fewer) while its 1 listings outnumber those of 51% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from D to C+. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±4.9 points). The founding year is the first post office, not a stated founding date.
Founding year: the first post office (other dates in Quick answers). 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 Stampers Creek Township’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Millersburg was named for Greenup Miller, who opened a store there in about 1833. A number of other mercantiles opened in the area, among them the Mahan store in 1840.
The post office in Millersburg was named Stampers Creek, and opened around 1851, with M. Stone named as postmaster. After Stone were George C. Duncan, then Nancy R. Duncan, then Ulrich Sailer, and then Dr. James Baker. During this era, the Davis and Dillard blacksmith shop also operated.
The population (under the name Stampers Creek) was 80 in 1890, 80 in 1920, and was 50 in 1940.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Stampers Creek Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1957Livonia sheet · 1:24,000
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Stampers Creek Township.
On the National Register
1 historic place in Stampers Creek Township
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
The Stampers Creek Township post office opened in 1855, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
How does Stampers Creek Township rank for history?
Stampers Creek Township is more historic than 24% of U.S. towns. 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 Stampers Creek Township?
One place: the Lynd School (listed 2002).
How old are the homes in Stampers Creek Township?
0.0% of Stampers Creek Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±4.9 points), against a typical 14% for an Indiana town; the median home was built in 1973.
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, 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.
