Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Its Register listing is the Casa De Josefina. Below: maps from 1952 on and the census since 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 Highland Park’s history is told.
Lost a third of its people between 1940 and 1950, then grew 4-fold.
9 censuses, 1940–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Highland Park’s Wikipedia page.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Highland Park yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Highland Park is a village in Polk County, Florida, United States. Highland Park is part of the Lakeland–Winter Haven Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its population was 251 at the 2020 US census.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 230 to 251 (+9%).
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 Highland Park. 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 Highland Park.
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.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
One place: the Casa De Josefina (listed 1975).
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.
