Gazetteers: each directory's form of the town

1858–2026

The gazetteer is the map's twin — the place rendered as an entry — and the run of entries for this town, read in sequence, is a history of what each age thought a town was. The earliest form reached in this build is Hawes' gazetteer of 1858–59, whose New Carlisle carries a Presbyterian church that no other record of the town preserves: the gazetteer's form of the town includes a congregation the ground has otherwise lost entire, and the Religion section carries it as a named gap with the gazetteer as its only witness — a directory entry doing the work of a church record. The 1875 atlas's Olive directory (pp. 102–103) is the gazetteer inside the atlas, the township's residents rendered as a subscription list, under the discipline printed in the atlas article above. Polk's state gazetteer of 1884–85 gives the booster form, counted and discounted in the article before this one; Polk's 1916–17 volume gives the press form — a New Carlisle Journal under publisher Harry Roloff — a newspaper that stands in the newspapers leg at directory strength, one of five lines in the town's press succession. The federal gazetteer of the present is GNIS, and it gives the town twice: a populated-place record (452704) and a civil record (2396800), two official points for one place standing, in the comparison the gazetteer sites print, 441.1 feet apart — the sources leg's standing lesson, pointed to here, that a point for a place is a convention, not a location. One negative closes the run: no gazetteer before the town existed can carry it, and the run in the record begins, as this article begins, with Hawes in 1858 — the twenty-three years between the plat and the first directory form being years in which the town was mapped (by its plat, its survey and its county's wall map) but not yet gazetteered at any strength this build could reach.

Sources

1. Hawes' Indiana Gazetteer (1858–59) — the Presbyterian attestation.
2. Polk's Indiana State Gazetteer (1884–85; 1916–17) — and Newspapers & Media.
3. Illustrated Historical Atlas of St. Joseph County (1875) — the Olive directory, pp. 102–103.
4. U.S. Geological Survey, Geographic Names Information System — the double record and the point spread.