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NOVEMBER 2026
As this spine is written, in November 2026, Granger stands at the end of its filling-in and the beginning of its next argument: the census counts 30,337 people (2020), the survey estimate 30,321, in a place that held 481 at the century's turn and 2,860 in its township as late as 1970. Its government is the layered frame the entries above print — two townships, a county, two school corporations, a fire territory twelve months from a merger that will make it the county's largest, a library branch named for its township — and not one office of it is Granger's alone. Its oldest institution is a post office; its largest is a school corporation seated in another town; its most storied ground is a farm that fed a university and now holds a parish of ten thousand souls on one road and, on another, the beginnings of a data-center campus whose construction water will run into Juday and Willow creeks through the winter. On November 3, 2026 its residents voted at Northpoint Elementary and in school gyms and fire stations like other Hoosiers, in a county election that turned the county's offices over wholesale — the township trustee who writes the place's history among those who stood for judgment. A place with no charter turns out to have a complete history anyway: a prairie, a name, a station, a farm, a boom, a plateau, and a new use rising on the old ground.
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- The record of the preceding entries, at their stated strengths, as of November 2026.