Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: 2 old photos and papers, maps from 1950 on, and the census since 1920.
The Teton post office opened in 1885, the earliest record of the town by name.
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 Teton’s history is told.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Teton yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Teton is a city in Fremont County, Idaho, United States. The population was 787 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Rexburg, Idaho Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Its first post office opened in 1885. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 735 to 787 (+7%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Teton, cut from the printed page as they were published.
He came to Teton Valley in 1910 to work on the Teton Valley News as a journeyman printer; bought a part interest in the paper and plant, and after working here about nine months, sold out and returned to Montana. The summer following he returned to Teton Valley, bought the Teton Valley News plant, and has been here ever since, actively engaged in the publishing and printing business.
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
A sawmill was erected in Teton Canyon by George E. Little, then Ed Morris, with the money Andrew Carnegie, a distant relative, furnished him, erected a mill on Biche Creek; the Seymour boys built a sawmill in Leigh Canyon; then John Penfold and Alma Penfold, in 1890, erected a shingle mill in Mahogany Canyon. Another mill was soon after built in the timber south of Victor by Ed Blair and one by Edward H. Holden in the west mountains, which was later transferred to Darby Canyon. James
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 Survey
In the archiveTeton Dam failureOne decade in the archive so far: the 1970s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Teton. 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 Teton.
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 Teton’s page.
Retake this view · +15Between 390 and 787 people in every census since 1920.
11 censuses, 1920–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Teton’s Wikipedia page.
The Teton post office opened in 1885, 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 (3), the Library of Congress (1), 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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