Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: maps from 1980 on and the census since 1910.
Sharpsburg dates its founding to 1884 (Wikipedia’s history). The census first counted it in 1910.
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 Sharpsburg’s history is told.
From Wikipedia’s history of Sharpsburg.
Sharpsburg was founded in 1884 as a stop on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad. A post office was established in 1886, and the city was incorporated in 1905.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sharpsburg’s post office has been open since 1886. Two other post offices 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).
Passages that mention Sharpsburg, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Scientific courses. He then took a course in penmanship at Columbus, Ohio, after which he returned to the Western Normal College and for five years had full charge of the Shenandoah Commercial Institute. This constituted the basis of his business career. In 1903, he came to Sharpsburg, since which time he has conducted what is known as the Sharpsburg Bank, a private institution owned by J. R. Cooper which has for security Taylor county real estate to the amount of one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Mr. Wilson has been cashier and has had charge of the bank since the organization and secured a
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
Christian people have a good church building at Blue Grove and have a large membership, keep a regular pastor, have a good Sunday-school and Endeavor Society and rank in regular church work with any church in the county. The Methodist and Presbyterian Brethren worship at Sharpsburg or Lenox, where each denomination is well represented. The present township officers are: clerk, D. L. Carter; trustees, W. J. Kilby, C. J. Trost and S. J. Key; assessor, Bert Hill.
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 SurveyThe U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Sharpsburg.
1980Gravity 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 Sharpsburg.
Between 72 and 188 people in every census since 1910.
12 censuses, 1910–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Sharpsburg’s Wikipedia page.
Nobody well known was born in Sharpsburg itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
In 1884, according to Wikipedia’s history of the town. Sharpsburg’s post office opened in 1883, and the census of 1910 counted 181 people here.
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), 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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