Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Most of Funston was built recently: 3% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1986. Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1978 on, and the census since 1910.
The Funston post office opened in 1901, 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 Funston’s history is told.
Lost a third of its people between 1910 and 1930, then more than doubled.
12 censuses, 1910–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Funston’s Wikipedia page.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Funston yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Funston is a town in Colquitt County, Georgia, United States. The population was 402 in 2020.
Its first post office opened in 1901. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 449 to 402 (-10%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
One decade in the archive so far: the 1940s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
2013Pleasant Hill Baptist Church, Church St. SW
2013Funston park
2013Funston monument
2013Funston Water Tower
2013Funston Post Office
2013Funston Fire Department
2013Funston Community Center Tennis Court
2013Funston Community Center Swings
2013Funston Community Center Slide
2013Funston Community Center Playground
2013Doerun United Methodist ChurchThe U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Funston.
1978Moultrie 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 Funston.
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 Funston’s page.
Retake this view · +15Nobody well known was born in Funston itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
The Funston post office opened in 1901, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
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), 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.
