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More historic than 26% of U.S. towns · #184 of 263 in Georgia. What drives it
Most of Chatsworth was built recently: 1% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1995. 4 places in town are on the National Register, among them two historic districts with 54 buildings between them. Below: maps from 1919 on and the census since 1910.
Chatsworth dates its founding to 1905 (Wikidata and Wikipedia’s history agree). The census first counted it in 1910.
More historic than 26% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Chatsworth is more historic than 26% of U.S. towns, #184 of 263 in Georgia. Its National Register listings hold the grade up; its age pulls it down.
Georgia towns list more on the Register than most of the country (a typical Georgia town has 10.0 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Chatsworth’s 116 sits above most of its state (72% of Georgia towns have fewer) while its 57 historic buildings outnumber those of 86% 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 Chatsworth’s history is told.
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.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Chatsworth. 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 Chatsworth.
From Wikipedia’s history of Chatsworth.
Chatsworth was founded in 1905 as a depot on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. It was incorporated as a town in 1906 and as a city in 1923. In 1915, the seat of Murray County transferred to Chatsworth from Spring Place, which was once the county seat.
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.
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
Born hereJames L. Terry is born here
2015Fort Mountain, viewed from
2015Fort Mountain
2015Fort Mountain
2014US76wGA282wGA2wRoadSigns-Chatsworth
2014Third Avenue in central
2011The Pines Motel and Restaurant, one mile south of Cha…
2011Creme Hut, 700 South 3rd Avenue
2009Wright Hotel, Chatsworth (Murray County, Georgia)
2008Sign - site of historic town Spring Place
2006Courthouse of Murray County, Georgia
2006Chatsworth
2005GAMap-doton-ChatsworthGrew from 314 people in 1910 to 4,874 in 2020, more than tenfold.
12 censuses, 1910–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Chatsworth’s Wikipedia page.
Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.
Chatsworth’s post office has been open since 1906.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
In 1905, according to Wikidata and Wikipedia’s history of the town. Chatsworth’s post office opened in 1906, and the census of 1910 counted 314 people here.
Chatsworth is more historic than 26% of U.S. towns, #184 of 263 in Georgia. 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.
4 listings: 2 buildings, among them the Murray County Courthouse (listed 1980, the first), and 2 historic districts, the Chatsworth Downtown Historic District and the Murray County High School Historic District, with 54 contributing buildings. 57 historic buildings in all.
1% of Chatsworth’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±1.3 points), against a typical 3.8% for a Georgia town; the median home was built in 1995.
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 (4), 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.
