Rankin by the numbers
By Rebecca Mabry
Sunday, January 14, 2007
Here's a numerical glance at Rankin:
60960
Town's zip code
599
Estimated population in 2005
$350,000
The cost to build the Rankin Township High School in 1952
11
Number of stalls in the roundhouse on the east side of town in 1925. The Nickel Plate Railroad moved its operations from Rankin to Frankfort, Ind., in 1954, taking 300 residents with it
1947
The year the Columbian Hotel was razed. The grand-looking two-story structure with a front porch and gables housed railway men as well as traveling performers with the chatauquas and circuses that came to town
2
Number of trains carrying aviation fuel that went through Rankin each day in 1943
1897
Year first newspaper, Rankin Reveille, was published
$1,000
Amount raised by band boosters in the early 1950s to buy band uniforms for the Rankin Township High School band
20
Number of graduates from Rankin Township High School school in 1958
$9,000
Base pay for a high school teacher in Rankin in 1979
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