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THE FEDERAL POPULATION RECORD AS USED · 1880–2020 FOR THE TOWN
What it is: the Story of New Carlisle section under every population line in this build, used in its published forms. The town's decennial series, as the published tables carry it, runs: 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 series begins in 1880 for a structural reason a checker should know: the town was incorporated only in 1866, and before its separate enumeration its people stand inside Olive Township's returns — the township is the counted unit of the early volumes, and Howard's 1900 frame (the township at 1,998 including the town's 597) is the form in which the nineteenth-century township counts reach this build. The 2020 detail — median age 37.8, 752 households, 839 housing units — stands in the published 2020 products the town article cites (the Demographic Profile and the PL 94-171 redistricting data), read as table views. The township's 2020 count, 4,364, reaches this build at the same published-table strength.
Its limit, stated plainly: the Census Bureau's API now demands a key; no key exists for this build and none was taken out — the standing rule of these passes is no sign-ups — so every census number here rides on the published volumes and table views, never on a live pull. And one counter-witness prints beside the series, because the directory trade's numbers are a different instrument: Polk's Indiana State Gazetteer for 1884–85 (read in part through the LDSGenealogy transcription carrier) calls New Carlisle "an enterprising village of 1,000 inhabitants" in a decade when the census counted 530 and then 607. A gazetteer's round thousand is a salesman's figure, not a count; the build prints it as what it is — evidence of how the town was sold — and never as a population.
Principal sources: U.S. Census Bureau, decennial census published tables as carried in the town's reference record (read first-hand); Howard (1907) for the 1900 township frame; Polk's Indiana State Gazetteer, 1884–85, read in part through the LDSGenealogy carrier.