Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Its Register listing is the William H. Byrom House. Its Register listing is the William H. Byrom House. Below: 5 old photos and papers, maps from 1972 on, and the census since 1910.
The Byromville post office opened in 1828, 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.
Peaked at 567 in 1980; 422 people lived here in 2020.
12 censuses, 1910–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Byromville’s Wikipedia page.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
In the archiveStation Byromville Georgia LOC fsa 8a03451
In the archiveFlorida [Sarasota County (part) - Washington County] -- Georgia [Appling County - Effingh…
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyFrom Wikipedia’s history of Byromville.
The Georgia General Assembly incorporated the Town of Byromville in 1905. The town was named in honor of early resident William H. Byrom.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
2 decades in the archive, from the 1930s to the 1940s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Byromville.
1972Byromville sheet · 1:24,000U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Byromville.
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 Byromville’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.
Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.
Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
The Byromville post office opened in 1828, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
One place: the William H. Byrom House (listed 1997).
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 (6), the Library of Congress (3), 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) 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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