Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Its Register listing is the Vance C. Larmore House. Its Register listing is the Vance C. Larmore House. Below: maps from 1936 on and the census since 1940.
Hammondville dates its founding to 1937 (Wikipedia’s history). The census first counted it in 1940.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Hammondville’s history is told.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Hammondville yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Hammondville is a town in DeKalb County, Alabama, United States. It was incorporated in 1937. As of the 2020 census, Hammondville had a population of 425.
Hammondville was established in 1937. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 488 to 425 (-13%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Hammondville. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Hammondville.
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Between 93 and 488 people in every census since 1940.
9 censuses, 1940–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Hammondville’s Wikipedia page.
Nobody well known was born in Hammondville itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
In 1937, according to Wikipedia’s history of the town. the census of 1940 counted 93 people here.
One place: the Vance C. Larmore House (listed 2004).
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →
From the National Register of Historic Places (1), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
