The township series, 1890–2020, and the remainder

LINCOLN TOWNSHIP ON THE STATE COMPILATION, CROSS-VERIFIED

Lincoln Township counted 1,648 people in 1890 and 2,859 in 2020, and its series is the town's story with the farm country left in. The figures, from the Indiana Business Research Center's township compilation (STATS Indiana, "Indiana Township Census Counts, 1890 to 2020"), read in full: 1890: 1,648; 1900: 1,599; 1910: 1,477; 1920: 1,584; 1930: 1,720; 1940: 1,791; 1950: 2,770; 1960: 2,730; 1970: 2,907; 1980: 2,875; 1990: 2,782; 2000: 3,053; 2010: 3,056; 2020: 2,859. The five compilation-only cells — 1890, 1900, 1960, and the township's nineteenth-century course generally — ride at compilation strength with the decennial volumes named as their settlers. The township's 1870 and 1880 counts, from the decades when it was newly detached from Liberty Township (1866), are not carried here: the instruments attempted are in the register article, and the Seventh-to-Tenth Census volumes' civil-division tables are the named settlers. The remainder — the township outside the town — is computed only where both series stand, and its course is the farm country's own: 562 people in 1900 (1,599 less the town's 1,037), 474 in 1910, 553 in 1920, 583 in 1930, 613 in 1940, 668 in 1950, 901 in 1970, 824 in 1980, 721 in 1990, 779 in 2000, 912 in 2010, and 763 in 2020. The town's share of the township rose from just under two-thirds in 1900 (64.8 percent) to three-quarters at the doubling (75.9 percent in 1950) and stands at 73.3 percent in 2020; the township's density in 2020 is about 129 people to the square mile against the town's 1,104. The remainder's shape — a long thinning to 1910, the war-decade rise, a late suburban-era swell to 2010, then decline — is the record of farm consolidation and the U.S. 6 corridor's fringe, read strictly as the arithmetic of two verified series, with no cause printed beyond what the doubling article documents.