Black Granger: the counts decade by decade, the institutions tested — geography a named gap

Register row L23-#6 · closes as a NAMED GAP (tract geography uncoverable from open sources)

Geography first, at the strength the record allows: Population prints the line decade by decade — Black-alone residents 493 in 2000, 773 in 2010, 1,003 in 2020 — and the ACS 2020–2024 release restates the present: Black alone 933 (3.1 percent) on the one-race count, and 1,708 (5.6 percent) counting Black alone or in combination (Census Bureau QuickFacts and the ACS profile for the CDP). The community the checklist asks this entry to map is therefore a community of roughly one to seventeen hundred people, grown twofold in twenty years, inside a place of thirty thousand. At the schoolhouse door its presence is larger than the place count suggests, at district strength and printed as district strength: Penn High School's students in 2024–25 were 9 percent African American and 9 percent Hispanic (the school record, from the Indiana Department of Education data as published) — Penn draws on Penn and Harris townships beyond the CDP line, and the figure is the corporation's, not the designated place's.

The institutions, tested: no Black congregation is seated inside the CDP — Churches & Religion's tested negative stands, the county's historic AME, Baptist and Church of God in Christ congregations being South Bend's — and no Black civic institution, business association or club seated on this ground was reached in the press and directory record swept for this section. The one documented institutional fact runs the other way and is printed with its discipline note from the banked file: Harris Prairie Church of Christ's documented Black weddings and anniversaries are facts about that congregation's life, not a Black-congregation seat. A community of a thousand-plus with no seated institution of its own in the record is a finding, not an oversight of this entry: like the ethnic threads above, Black Granger's institutional life, where the record shows it at all, runs across the line to South Bend's congregations and organizations.

The gap: the ground and streets of the community — whether its households concentrate in particular plats or school catchments or disperse evenly through the subdivision landscape — cannot be stated from any open source reached. The decennial and ACS counts publish at place level; the geography lives in the tract and block-group tables and in PHM's enrollment by school (Indiana Department of Education), the settlers the register names, with the Granger Gazette's run behind them. Until those tables are read, this entry closes as a named gap on geography, with the counts dug whole and the institutional test printed above. Nothing is mapped here that the record did not map first.

Sources:

1. Population (banked) — the Black-alone line: 493 (2000), 773 (2010), 1,003 (2020), from the decennial censuses.
2. U.S. Census Bureau, QuickFacts and ACS Profile Report 2020–2024 for Granger CDP (GEOID 1828800) — Black alone 933 (3.1%); Black alone or in combination 1,708 (5.6%); Hispanic or Latino 1,658 (5.5%).
3. SchoolDigger, from Indiana Department of Education data — Penn High School, 2024–25: 3,687 students; 69% White, 9% Hispanic, 9% African American, 7% two or more races, 6% Asian (district geography, printed as such).
4. Churches & Religion (banked) — the Black-congregations tested negative; the Harris Prairie discipline note.
5. Settler named: ACS tract/block-group tables; IDOE enrollment by PHM school; the Granger Gazette run.