Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: maps from 1969 on and the census since 1910.
The Turin post office opened in 1887, the earliest record of the town by name.
Turin was named after Turin, in Italy.
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 Turin’s history is told.
Peaked at 184 in 1940; 72 people lived here in 2020.
12 censuses, 1910–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Turin’s Wikipedia page.
From Wikipedia’s history of Turin.
Turin was platted in 1887. It was named after Turin, in Italy. A post office was established at Turin in 1887, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1996.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Turin, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Lying on the northwest quarter of the northeast quarter of section 9, Belvidere Township, lies the village of Turin, one of the youngest of the children of Monona County, it having been born in 1887. Tlie railroad placed a station here in the fall of 1886, and the following summer a town-site was surveyed and jjlattcd bjthe Western Town Lot Company and the Maple Valley Railway Com-
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
Formerly there were two post-offices, in Belvidere and Hiawatha, but which on the springing up of the new village of Turin, .were discontinued. The postmaster at the first mentioned office was 8. C. Hoadley, the same being located on section 25; it ceased in 1885. Tlie township is well watered and drained by the Little Sioux and Maple Rivers, Beaver, Hiawatha and Cottonwood Creeks.
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 Turin. 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 Turin.
Nobody well known was born in Turin itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Turin’s post office has been open since 1887.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
The Turin post office opened in 1887, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
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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