Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Its Register listing is the Harcourt Consolidated School Gymnasium. Below: maps from 1923 on and the census since 1900.
Harcourt dates its founding to 1881 (Wikipedia’s history). The census first counted it in 1900.
Harcourt was named for William Vernon Harcourt, a British statesman.
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 Harcourt’s history is told.
From Wikipedia’s history of Harcourt.
Harcourt was platted in 1881. It was named for William Vernon Harcourt, a British statesman. A post office has been in operation in Harcourt since 1882.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Harcourt, cut from the printed page as they were published.
settlement on his farm in \\'ebster county and was continuously engaged in agricultural inirsuits for the twenty-sex'en years following. He is now the owner of two hundred and forty acres of highly developed land. In 1903 he established his residence in Harcourt. where he has since continued to reside. He is president of the Harcourt Savings Bank, and in Xovember. 1907, received the appointment as postmaster of Harcourt and has since continued in that office.
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
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 SurveyEvery edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Harcourt. 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 Harcourt.
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 192 and 347 people in every census since 1900.
13 censuses, 1900–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Harcourt’s Wikipedia page.
Harcourt’s post office has been open since 1882.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
In 1881, according to Wikipedia’s history of the town. Harcourt’s post office opened in 1882, and the census of 1900 counted 192 people here.
One place: the Harcourt Consolidated School Gymnasium (listed 2026).
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 (2), the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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