Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: maps from 1955 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).
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Warren Township’s history is told.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Warren Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Warren Township is one of 12 townships in Huntington County, Indiana, United States. As of the 2020 census, its population was 641.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 672 to 641 (-5%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Warren Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Bippus When the Chicago & Erie Railroad was built through Huntington County, a station was established about a mile east of the Wabash County line, in Warren Township. This station was called West Point, and the following story is told of the manner in which it received that name : Some years before, William Stults was engaged in teaching “singing schools” in different parts of the county. One of his classes was in Clear Creek Township, near the eastern boundary, another was at
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Makin Makin is a small hamlet in the eastern part of Warren Township, on the highway running from Huntington to North Manchester. Its begin¬ ning was a shoemaker’s shop, which was established there soon after the first settlements were made in that locality. It has never been officially platted and at the present time its chief importance is as a neighborhood trading center. Mail is received by rural delivery from the postoffice at Bippus.
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Settlement. — The first permanent settler within the present limits of Warren Township, was George Sellers who moved from Stark County, Ohio, in the spring of 1836, and located a home in Section 11. He was a widower, and had a family of three sons and four daughters, all of whom lived in the wagon until a house could be erected, an undertaking which required a couple of
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Settlement. — The first permanent settler withm the present limits of Warren Township, was George Sellers who moved from Stark County, Ohio, in the spring of 1836, and located a home m Section 11. He was a widower, and had a family of three sons and four daughters, all of whom lived in the wagon until a house could be erected, an undertaking which required a couple of 32
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.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Warren 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 Warren Township.
Between 641 and 1,267 people in every census since 1890.
14 censuses, 1890–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Warren Township’s Wikipedia page.
Nobody well known was born in Warren Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
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 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.
