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More historic than 67% of U.S. towns · #71 of 263 in Georgia. What drives it
2 places in town are on the National Register, among them a historic district with 157 buildings. Most of Locust Grove was built recently: 2% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 2005. Below: maps from 1964 on and the census since 1890.
The Locust Grove post office opened in 1832, the earliest record of the town by name.
More historic than 67% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Locust Grove is more historic than 67% of U.S. towns, #71 of 263 in Georgia. Its National Register listings hold the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 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 Locust Grove’s 150 sits above most of its state (76% of Georgia towns have fewer) while its 158 historic buildings outnumber those of 92% of U.S. towns.
Founding year: the first post office (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 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.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Locust Grove’s history is told.
Lost half of its people between 1910 and 1940, then grew more than tenfold.
14 censuses, 1890–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Locust Grove’s Wikipedia page.
From Wikipedia’s history of Locust Grove.
The community was named for a grove of locust trees near the original town site. Georgia General Assembly incorporated Locust Grove in 1893.
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 hereJordan Akins is born hereEvery edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Locust Grove. 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 Locust Grove.
Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.
Locust Grove’s post office has been open since 1832.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
The Locust Grove post office opened in 1832, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
Locust Grove is more historic than 67% of U.S. towns, #71 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.
Two places: the Locust Grove Institute Academic Building (listed 1986) and the Locust Grove Historic District (2016).
2% of Locust Grove’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±1.8 points), against a typical 3.8% for a Georgia town; the median home was built in 2005.
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 (6), the National Register of Historic Places (2), 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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