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More historic than 55% of U.S. towns · #55 of 638 in Florida. What drives it
Its Register listing is the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, at Umatilla. Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1906 on, and the census since 1910.
Umatilla dates its founding to 1856 (Wikidata). The census first counted it in 1910.
More historic than 55% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Umatilla is more historic than 55% of U.S. towns, #55 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 Umatilla’s 2.6 sits above most of its state (78% of Florida towns have fewer) while its 1 listings outnumber those of 51% of U.S. towns.
Founding year: Wikidata (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 Umatilla’s history is told.
Umatilla’s post office has been open since 1878. Another post office, Glendale, opened and closed inside today’s town.
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.
1906Sheet 1 of 1Sanborn Map Company, via the Library of Congress. Editions published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
From Wikipedia’s history of Umatilla.
The city was named after Umatilla, Oregon. In 1998 it was the site of a Mediterranean fruit fly outbreak at the Golden Gem citrus plant.
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.
In the archiveFlorida [Hamilton County - Sarasota County (part)]
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
Born hereKasey Hill is born hereOne decade in the archive so far: the 1940s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
2009Umatilla FL Seminole Ranger Station01
2009Umatilla FL Seminole Ranger Station sign01
2009Umatilla FL SR19 south01
2009Umatilla FL SR19 north01
2009Umatilla FL Fort Mason plaque01
2008Umatilla City Hall02
2008Umatilla City Hall01
2008Umatilla Chamb of Comm01
2008Umatilla Chamb of Comm sign01
2002Road photo from January 1, 2002 44
2002Road photo from January 1, 2002 43Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Umatilla. 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 Umatilla.
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
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Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Umatilla’s page.
Retake this view · +15The 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.
Grew from 283 people in 1910 to 3,685 in 2020, more than tenfold.
12 censuses, 1910–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Umatilla’s Wikipedia page.
Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
In 1856, according to Wikidata. Umatilla’s post office opened in 1878, and the census of 1910 counted 283 people here.
Umatilla is more historic than 55% of U.S. towns, #55 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.
One place: the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, at Umatilla (listed 2000).
14% of Umatilla’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±7.6 points), against a typical 0.6% for a Florida town; the median home was built in 1986.
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 (12), the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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.
