Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Most of Jennings was built recently: 7% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1981. Its Register listing is the Jennings High School. Below: maps from 1922 on and the census since 1910.
The Jennings post office opened in 1847, 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 Jennings’s history is told.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Jennings yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Jennings is a town in Hamilton County, Florida, United States. The population was 749 at the 2020 census, down from 878 at the 2010 census.
Its first post office opened in 1847. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 878 to 749 (-15%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
2019FL Jennings CR 150 Alapaha River south01
2019FL Jennings CR 150 Alapaha River north02
2019FL Jennings CR 150 Alapaha River north01
2017Regio Tacos food truck
2017Jennings Water Tower (near I75)
2017Former Holiday Inn (Jennings, Florida) Budget Lodge M…
2016Jennings railroad sign
2012Town of Jennings 1920's
2012Jennings Old Families
2012Beaty Family of early 1900's Jennings, Florida
2004FLMap-doton-Jennings
2002AlapahaRiver2002Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Jennings. 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 Jennings.
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 sheet.
1922Sheet 1 of 2Sanborn Map Company, via the Library of Congress. Editions published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
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.
Between 480 and 878 people in every census since 1910.
12 censuses, 1910–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Jennings’ Wikipedia page.
Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.
The Jennings post office opened in 1847, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
One place: the Jennings High School (listed 2008).
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 Wikimedia Commons (12), the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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), 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.
