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7 June – 4 September 1866
The town was incorporated on the county board's order after a vote of forty-four to six. Howard prints the instrument's whole course from the commissioners' record: "On June 7, 1866, Samuel C. Lancaster and thirty-one others filed with the board of county commissioners a petition for the incorporation of the town; and the board fixed June 30, 1866, for an election… On September 4, 1866, the report of the election was filed with the county board, and it showed forty-four votes for incorporation and six against it. Thereupon the board entered an order incorporating the town, under the name of New Carlisle." Lancaster, the petition's first signer, was no stranger to the township's civic organizing — Chapman finds him secretary of the Terre Coupee Anti-Horse-Thief Association in 1880. Two wrong towns are kept out of this article by name: New Carlisle, Ohio, incorporated in 1831, is not this town, and Carlisle in Sullivan County, Indiana, whose incorporation petition ran in March 1856, is not this town either. This town's date is 1866, on the record above.