Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Trippett-Glaze-Duncan-Kolb Farm (Boundary Increase) · Photo: Nyttend · Public domain1 place in town is on the National Register, among them a historic district with 7 buildings. Below: 10 old photos and papers, maps from 1903 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).
Peaked at 1,904 in 1900; 731 people lived here in 2020.
14 censuses, 1890–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Washington Township’s Wikipedia page.
From Wikipedia’s history of Washington Township.
The Trippett-Glaze-Duncan-Kolb Farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993, with a boundary increase in 2009.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Washington Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
The Suburban Electric Light Co. was incorporated June 14, 1901, with a capital of $500,000. It distributes light and power throughout Alameda County, including as a matter of course all the towns and homes in Washington Township. This Company secures its power from the Standard Electric Company and from the Bay Counties Company.
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 Survey
In the archiveBoys walking fence. Washington, IndianaOne decade in the archive so far: the 1940s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
1941Boys walking fence. Washington, Indiana
1941Boys walking fence. Washington, Indiana
1941Farm boys eating ice-cream cones. Washington, Indiana
1941Farm boys eating ice-cream cones. Washington, Indiana
1941Untitled photo, possibly related to: Boys walking fen…
1941Untitled photo, possibly related to: Boys walking fen…
1941John W. Dillard, real estate and insurance man. Washi…
1941Office of John W. Dillard, real estate and insurance …
1941Untitled photo, possibly related to: Farm boys eating…
1941Untitled photo, possibly related to: Farm boys eating…Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Washington 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 Washington 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 Washington Township’s page.
Retake this view · +15The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving. Boundary changes and added documentation are counted with their listing.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Nobody well known was born in Washington 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 Trippett-Glaze-Duncan-Kolb Farm (listed 1993).
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 (10), the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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.
