Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Sulphur Springs Old School Complex Historic District · Photo: Valis55 · CC BY-SA 3.06 places in town are on the National Register, among them two historic districts with 6 buildings between them. Below: maps from 1909 on.
The Sulphur Springs post office opened in 1878, the earliest record of the town by name.
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 Sulphur Springs’s history is told.
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.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Sulphur Springs yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Its first post office opened in 1878. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 511 to 481 (-6%).
Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Sulphur Springs.
1971Gravette sheet · 1:24,000U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Sulphur Springs.
Fire insurance maps drew every building, what it was made of and what it was used for, so insurers could price the risk of fire. Pick a year, then a sheet.
1909Sheet 1 of 1Sanborn Map Company, via the Library of Congress. Editions published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Nobody well known was born in Sulphur Springs itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Sulphur Springs’s post office has been open since 1878.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
The Sulphur Springs post office opened in 1878, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
6 listings: 4 buildings, among them the Jones House (listed 1988, the first), and 2 historic districts, the Sulphur Springs Park Reserve and the Sulphur Springs Old School Complex Historic District, with 6 contributing buildings. 11 historic buildings in all.
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 (6), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and Sanborn fire insurance maps (Library of Congress). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
