Indiana
Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Independent City or Town
- Metro Area
- Politics c. 1860?
- Don’t Know
- Unions, Organized Labor?
- Don’t Know
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Probable
- Was there an ordinance?
- Perhaps, Some Oral Evidence
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Probably Not, Although Still Very Few Black People
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1900 | 1400 | 4 | ||||||
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| 1950 | 1073 | 0 | ||||||
| 1960 | 1271 | 0 | ||||||
| 1970 | 1338 | 2 | ||||||
| 1980 | ||||||||
| 1990 | 1468 | 7 | 0 | |||||
| 2000 | 1747 | 16 | ||||||
| 2010 | 1666 | 7 | ||||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
Arcadia: near Roberts, a rural black settlement, would not let blacks buy property in town. In 1900, Arcadia had 4 blacks among 1400 people. (Stephen A. Vincent, Southern Seed, Northern Soil (Indianapolis: IN UP, 1999), 126-27.)