More historic than 16% of U.S. towns · #264 of 638 in Florida. What drives it
Most of Conway was built recently: 1% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1975. Below: maps from 1956 on and the census since 1970.
Founding year: the first Conway post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).
History grade
What drives Conway’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Conway is more historic than 16% of U.S. towns, #264 of 638 in Florida. Its age holds the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls it down.
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HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Conway’s overall grade.
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 Conway’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.
How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from D to C. The pre-1940 share (±0.8 points) is firm at this size. The founding year is the first post office, not a stated founding date.
Founding year: the first post office (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 →
What stands out about Conway’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Peaked at 24,027 in 1980; 13,596 people lived here in 2020.
6 censuses, 1970–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Conway’s Wikipedia page.
The story so far
Conway, in brief
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Conway yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Conway is a census-designated place and an unincorporated area in Orange County, Florida, United States. As of the 2020 census, Conway had a population of 13,596. It is part of the Orlando–Kissimmee–Sanford, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area. Settled in the 1850s, Conway was an important place in the early 1900s. One of the first five paved highways built in Orange County was the brick Conway Road from Orlando to Conway, running along what is now Briercliff Drive, Curry Ford Road, and Conway Road, ending at Anderson Road, the center of Conway.
Its first post office opened in 1884. Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 13,467 in 2010, 13,596 in 2020.
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Timeline
Conway, 1884 to 1980
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
The Conway post office opened in 1884, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
How does Conway rank for history?
Conway is more historic than 16% of U.S. towns, #264 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.
How old are the homes in Conway?
1% of Conway’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate), against a typical 0.6% for a Florida town; the median home was built in 1975.
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 (1), 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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