Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
4 places in town are on the National Register, among them a historic district with 22 buildings. Below: 3 old photos and papers, maps from 1893 on, and the census since 1900.
The Kendrick post office opened in 1890, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Latah (1889), opened inside today’s city and later closed.
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 Kendrick’s history is told.
Fire insurance maps drew every building, what it was made of and what it was used for, so insurers could price the risk of fire. Pick a year, then a sheet.
1893Sheet 1 of 1Sanborn Map Company, via the Library of Congress. Editions published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
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.
From Wikipedia’s history of Kendrick.
Founded as Latah or Latah City in 1889 by Thomas Kirby, a post office was established on May 24 with Kirby as the postmaster.
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 archivePortrait of woman and man, Kendrick, Idaho, c. 1870s-1900s
BuiltKendrick Fraternal Temple is built
In the archiveKendrick, Idaho (circa 1911)
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
In the archiveKendrick, Idaho3 decades in the archive, from the 1870s to the 1990s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Kendrick. 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 Kendrick.
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Kendrick’s page.
Retake this view · +15Between 288 and 543 people in every census since 1900.
13 censuses, 1900–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Kendrick’s Wikipedia page.
Kendrick’s post office has been open since 1890. Another post office, Latah, 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 Kendrick post office opened in 1890, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
4 listings: 2 buildings, among them the Thomas Kirby House (listed 1999, the first), 1 historic district, the Kendrick Downtown Historic District, with 22 contributing buildings, and 1 structure. 24 historic buildings in all.
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 (11), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (4), 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 Sanborn fire insurance maps (Library of Congress). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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