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1870–2020
The town's first separate census return is 1870, not 1880: 223 people. The decennial line, as the Census Bureau's published series carries it: 1870, 223; 1880, 346; 1890, no figure — the published table prints a dash, and the missing year stands as a named gap whose settler is the Eleventh Census's Indiana bulletin by minor civil divisions; 1900, 504, corroborated twice by Howard from the census of 1900; 1910, 681; 1920, 684; 1930, 823; 1940, 978; 1950, 1,165; 1960, 1,241; 1970, 1,259; 1980, 1,211; 1990, 1,366; 2000, 1,402; 2010, 1,896; 2020, 1,623 — the 2020 figure confirmed against the Indiana Department of Transportation's 2020 populations list and the redistricting data (Public Law 94-171) citations, and the 2000 and 2010 figures corroborated in the Census Bureau's own Summary File 1 products. The returns before 1894 are place returns; the town was not incorporated until that year, and no source read states the basis on which the unincorporated place was separately returned. Three features of the line are flagged, and no explanation is offered for any of them, because none was found in a reached source: the jump from 2000 to 2010, +494 people, +35.2 percent, the largest rise in the series after 1880, following a decade of +2.6 percent; the fall from 2010 to 2020, −273, −14.4 percent, the largest decline in the series, in the same decade in which the town's published land area rose from 0.98 to 1.04 square miles; and the town's own site still carrying the pre-2020 framing that the population "has increased with every census since 1980" — true through 2010, and superseded by the 2020 return. A second, divergent set of figures circulates and prints whole, unmerged: one compilation gives 1990 as 1,394, 2000 as 1,445, 2010 as 1,898 and 2020 as 1,627, with its own explanation printed beside the figures — "Latest available rebased population figures are used. In case of significant changes, they were recalculated by using census block data" — and a third carrier prints yet another 2020 value, 1,628. The decennial series above is the one corroborated against the Census Bureau's published products; the variants stand on the record beside it.