Most of Inglis was built recently: 2% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1988. Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1955 on, and the census since 1960.
Founding year: the first Inglis post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓
History grade
What drives Inglis’ History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Inglis is more historic than 18% of U.S. towns. 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 Inglis’ 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 Inglis’ 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 (±2.5 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 Inglis’ past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The town is named after Captain John L. Inglis, a Scottish American with family from Glasgow, Scotland, who skippered a boat from Spain to the mouth of the Withlacoochee River for trading purposes, and was connected with Dunnellon Phosphate. The community was originally called “Blind Horse” (thought to either be named for a blind horse that once pulled ferries or a blind horse that fell off a ferry), but was renamed “Port Inglis” the same year, when it was first settled in 1875.
Despite being settled since 1875, the Town of Inglis was officially incorporated as a municipality in 1956.
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
The Inglis post office opened in 1899, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
How does Inglis rank for history?
Inglis is more historic than 18% of U.S. towns. 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 Inglis?
2% of Inglis’ homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±2.5 points), against a typical 0.6% for a Florida town; the median home was built in 1988.
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 (6), 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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