Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
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 Maysville’s history is told.
Lost half of its people between 1920 and 1940, then grew 3-fold.
12 censuses, 1910–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Maysville’s Wikipedia page.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Maysville. 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 Maysville.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Maysville yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Maysville is a city in Scott County, Iowa, United States. The population was 156 at the time of the 2020 census.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 176 to 156 (-11%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Maysville, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Clara S. Keppy, a native of Donahue, Scott county. She is a daughter of Frank Keppy, who is engaged in merchandising in the latter place, and by her marriage she has become the mother of one child, Lorane. Upon the incorporation of the village of Maysville on the nth of July, 1909, Mr. Klindt was elected its first mayor and he has already demonstrated his fitness for the office. In his business affairs he is very methodical and accurate as to details and shows splendid judgment in the treatment of his employes and of all with whom he comes in contact.
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
was a young man of twenty-two years when the family sought a home in the new world, and from that time to the present he has made his home in Scott county. After coming here he was engaged at farm labor for six years and then became proprietor of a hotel in Maysville, conducting a saloon in connection with his hostelry. He gave his time to this business for sixteeii years and in the meantime, meeting with success, he invested his money in farm lands in Minnesota and the Dakotas. Since retiring from active business he has made his home in Maysville and now gives his time to his land interests in the north.
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.
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), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), 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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