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1880–2020
The federal census has counted New Carlisle as a separate place in every enumeration from 1880 to 2020, and the line it draws is the Story of New Carlisle section of this section: 1880, 530; 1890, 607; 1900, 597; 1910, 612; 1920, 609; 1930, 718; 1940, 747; 1950, 983; 1960, 1,376; 1970, 1,434; 1980, 1,439; 1990, 1,446; 2000, 1,505; 2010, 1,861; 2020, 1,891. The figures stand as the earlier passes banked them from the published volumes, and they print here complete — no census in the run skipped, smoothed or interpolated. Before the run opens, the absence is named as the checklist requires: the town was platted in 1835 and incorporated in 1866, yet no separate return for the place appears in the published tables of 1850, 1860 or 1870 — the village was enumerated inside its township in those years and not tabulated apart, so the series begins at 1880 not because the town began then but because the counting of it did. One counter-witness prints beside the series at the head of its life, because the record contains it: Polk's Indiana State Gazetteer of 1884–85 described New Carlisle as "an enterprising village of 1,000 inhabitants" in the decade when the census counted 530 and then 607 — a gazetteer's round thousand, printed in the sources leg as what it is, a salesman's figure rather than a count, and carried here as the standing warning that every later figure in this section is only as good as its instrument.
Sources
- U.S. Census Bureau, decennial censuses 1880–2020, published volumes — the series.
- Polk's Indiana State Gazetteer and Business Directory (1884–85) — the counter-witness.