Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: Michael Rivera · CC BY-SA 4.0Most of Glenwood was built recently: 4% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1986. Its Register listing is the Glenwood High School. Below: maps from 1970 on and the census since 1910.
The Glenwood post office opened in 1890, 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 Glenwood’s history is told.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Glenwood yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Glenwood is a city in Wheeler County, Georgia, United States. The population was 850 in 2020.
Its first post office opened in 1890. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 747 to 850 (+14%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Glenwood.
1970Glenwood 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 Glenwood.
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.
Between 347 and 884 people in every census since 1910.
12 censuses, 1910–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Glenwood’s Wikipedia page.
Nobody well known was born in Glenwood itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
The Glenwood post office opened in 1890, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
One place: the Glenwood High School (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 National Register of Historic Places (1), 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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