New Carlisle, Indiana · 20th century
1980s
6 dated events in 1980s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
20th century 6 dated mentions
1980s
- 1980–2026Wrestling: one state champion, and the program's firsts
The firsts stand in order: first qualifier Mitchel Kane, 1980; first placer Frank Fraser, 1997. An individual state title is a team-history fact at this size — the champion's biography belongs to the Sports Players leg, and this section carries the title, the year and the program roll at the strength of the sport's own record.
- 1981–2000The record itself: two listings, two filers, and the survey under them
Under both filings lies the fieldwork that made them possible: the Indiana Historic Sites and Structures Inventory of St. Joseph County, published at South Bend in 1981, the county survey in which the state's investigators first recorded the town's buildings one by one.
- 1982–2018The disaster-and-recovery beats: the floods, with the argument about the numbers
That record, from the federal gauges: on the Kankakee River near Shelby, the greatest discharge of record is 7,650 cubic feet per second on 26 March 1982, and the greatest gage height 12.98 feet on 24 March 1982…
- 1982–2018The flood sequence as a series: the record before the record, then the record
On the Kankakee River near Shelby, the flood of March 1982 holds two of the basin's marks at once: the greatest discharge of record, 7,650 cubic feet per second on 26 March, and the greatest gage height, 12.98 feet on 24 March…
- 1986–1988The takeover: the commission takes the branches, 1986–1988
The patronage system's end began in 1986, and it was announced as a service scandal as much as a political one: the Indianapolis Business Journal's retrospective states the sequence plainly…
- 1987–2020The anchor manufacturer: I/N Tek and I/N Kote — founding, peak form, and fate
The largest industry this town ever held was announced in March 1987, and it was a partnership between Chicago steel and Japan.