Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 8% of U.S. towns · #403 of 638 in Florida. What drives it
Most of Mulberry was built recently: 2% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1989. Below: 4 old photos and papers, maps from 1909 on, and the census since 1910.
The Mulberry post office opened in 1900, the earliest record of the town by name.
More historic than 8% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Mulberry is more historic than 8% of U.S. towns, #403 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 Mulberry’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: 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 →
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 Mulberry’s history is told.
Mulberry’s post office has been open since 1900.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
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 year, then a sheet.
1909Sheet 1 of 3Sanborn Map Company, via the Library of Congress. Editions published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
From Wikipedia’s history of Mulberry.
The first white settlers appeared in the Mulberry area in the 1840s. The first industry in Mulberry was logging the longleaf yellow pine which dominated the area.
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.
2 decades in the archive, from the 1900s to the 1940s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
2025EB FL 60; Mulberry Yard Spur Xing
2025EB FL 60 near FL 37 in Mulberry; Lakeland or Bradley …
2025EB FL 60 @ Bone Valley Sub and FL 37 in
2022Mia's Puerto Rican Cafe (former Whatburger)
2021Untitled photo
2021Achan Sub Junction
2016Mulberry Trail
2016Mulberry Cultural Center
2011Mulberry FL library01
2011Mulberry FL citrus planting plaque01
2004FLMap-doton-MulberryEvery edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Mulberry. 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 Mulberry.
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Mulberry’s page.
Retake this view · +15Grew from 1,418 people in 1910 to 3,952 in 2020.
12 censuses, 1910–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Mulberry’s Wikipedia page.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Mulberry post office opened in 1900, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
Mulberry is more historic than 8% of U.S. towns, #403 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.
2% of Mulberry’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±1.4 points), against a typical 0.6% for a Florida town; the median home was built in 1989.
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 (15), 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), 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.
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