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More historic than 7% of U.S. towns · #441 of 638 in Florida. What drives it
Most of Casselberry was built recently: 0.8% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1983. Below: 3 old photos and papers, maps from 1962 on, and the census since 1950.
Casselberry dates its founding to 1940 (Wikidata). The census first counted it in 1950.
More historic than 7% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Casselberry is more historic than 7% of U.S. towns, #441 of 638 in Florida. Its National Register listings hold the grade up; its age pulls it down.
Few Florida towns list much on the Register (a typical Florida town has 0.0 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Casselberry’s 0.0 sits below most of its state (33% of Florida towns have fewer) while its 0 listings outnumber those of 23% of U.S. towns.
Founding year: Wikidata (other dates in Quick answers). Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →
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 Casselberry’s history is told.
From Wikipedia’s history of Casselberry.
Prior to European settlement in the 19th-century, Native American groups inhabited the Seminole County area, including land in present-day Casselberry.
Casselberry was originally part of the unincorporated community and current census-designated place, Fern Park.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
In the archiveFlorida [Sarasota County (part) - Washington County] -- Georgia [Appling County - Effingh…
In the archiveCasselberry pickingferns
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
Born herePat Calathes is born here
Born hereChandler Parsons is born here
Born hereNick Calathes is born here2 decades in the archive, from the 1940s to the 1950s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Casselberry. 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 Casselberry.
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
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Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Casselberry’s page.
Retake this view · +15Grew from 407 people in 1950 to 28,794 in 2020, more than tenfold.
8 censuses, 1950–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Casselberry’s Wikipedia page.
Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.
Casselberry’s post office has been open since 1957.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
In 1940, according to Wikidata. Casselberry’s post office opened in 1957, and the census of 1950 counted 407 people here.
Casselberry is more historic than 7% of U.S. towns, #441 of 638 in Florida. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
0.8% of Casselberry’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate), against a typical 0.6% for a Florida town; the median home was built in 1983.
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).
From Wikimedia Commons (12), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) 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.
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