Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Its Register listing is the Cades Mill Covered Bridge. Below: 18 old photos and papers, maps from 1958 on, and the census since 1890.
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).
One decade in the archive so far: the 1930s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
1938Dairy barn
1938Feeding chickens
1938Tractor operator
1938Feeding chickens
1938Farm boy
1938Planting tomatoes
1938Cow at Wabash Farms cooperative, Indiana
1938Working in garden
1938Tractors used in cultivation
1938Resettled farmer with team
1938Loading supplies into shed
1938Tractors used in cultivation
1938Driving the cows from pasture
1938Resettled farmer's wife (Mrs. Lestor Barnes)
1938Large fields make tractor cultivation necessary. Waba…
1938Farmer on Loogootee unit oiling tractor
1938Resettled farmer on steps of new home
1938Family living on part-time farming unit at LoogooteeWikipedia doesn’t have a history of Wabash Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Wabash Township is one of eleven townships in Fountain County, Indiana. As of the 2020 census, its population was 689 and it contained 335 housing units.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 783 to 689 (-12%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
BuiltCades Mill Covered Bridge is builtIn the archiveDairy barn
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyEvery edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Wabash 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 Wabash Township.
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 Wabash Township’s page.
Retake this view · +15The 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.
Between 689 and 1,293 people in every census since 1890.
14 censuses, 1890–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Wabash Township’s Wikipedia page.
Nobody well known was born in Wabash Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
One place: the Cades Mill Covered Bridge (listed 2021).
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 the Library of Congress (18), the National Register of Historic Places (1), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), 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.
