Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
The Norman Park post office opened in 1904, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Obe (1880), opened inside today’s city and later closed.
More historic than 17% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Norman Park is more historic than 17% of U.S. towns. Its share of homes from before 1940 holds 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 Norman Park’s 0.0 sits below most of its state (16% of Georgia towns have fewer) while its 0 listings outnumber those of 23% 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 first neighbors to add old photos shape how Norman Park’s history is told.
From Wikipedia’s history of Norman Park.
The Georgia General Assembly incorporated Norman Park as a town in 1902. The community was named after J.B. Norman, a founder of the local but now-defunct Norman College.
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.
In the archiveFlorida [Sarasota County (part) - Washington County] -- Georgia [Appling County - Effingh…
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyOne decade in the archive so far: the 1940s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
2017Norman Park volunteer fire department
2017Norman Park police car
2017Norman Park city limit Ellenton Norman Park Road NB
2017Norman Park city hall
2017Norman Park Water Tower
2017Norman Park Post Office
2017Norman Park Elementary School
2017Lauri Jo's Georgia Grown Gift Shop
2017Untitled photo
2005GAMap-doton-NormanParkThe U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Norman Park.
1973Norman Park 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 Norman Park.
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 Norman Park’s page.
Retake this view · +15Between 565 and 972 people in every census since 1910.
12 censuses, 1910–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Norman Park’s Wikipedia page.
Nobody well known was born in Norman Park itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Norman Park’s post office has been open since 1904. Another post office, Obe, opened and closed inside today’s town.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
The Norman Park post office opened in 1904, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
Norman Park is more historic than 17% of U.S. towns. 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.
11% of Norman Park’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±11.6 points), against a typical 3.8% for a Georgia town; the median home was built in 1981.
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 (11), Wikipedia, 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.
