Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: maps from 1948 on and the census since 1870.
Coatsburg dates its founding to 1855 (Wikipedia’s history). The census first counted it in 1870.
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 Coatsburg’s history is told.
Peaked at 321 in 1900; 150 people lived here in 2020.
16 censuses, 1870–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Coatsburg’s Wikipedia page.
From Wikipedia’s history of Coatsburg.
Coatsburg was platted in 1855. A post office called Coatsburgh was established in 1856, and the name was changed to Coatsburg in 1893. The village has the name of Robert Coats, a first settler.
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Passages that mention Coatsburg, cut from the printed page as they were published.
the prairie and timber being crossed by many streams, it has great advantages for stock purposes. The C, B. & Q. railroad crosses the southwestern portion of the townshij), and has two stations — Paloma and the town of Coatsburg; the latter of which is quite a flourishing village, having become liistorical and famous as the com])etitor of the city of Quincy in the last county seat contest, which is so fresh in the memory of the citizens of this county.
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Richard Gray though he was never inclined to office holding was honored with various places of local responsibility in the town.ship. He was also a stockholder in the railroad company when it built the line through the Village of Coatsburg. He was one of the very active members of the ]\Iethodist Episcopal Church. Richard Gray died January 9, 1909, when nearly ninety-four yeai-s of age. He was at that time the oldest man in point of years and point of residence in Coatsburg. His character and good habits undoubtedly did much to prolong his life. He was always temperate, curbed liis appetite, was men-
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At Camp Point, a few miles east of Coatsburg, the Quaternary beds were all penetrated in sinking a tank well at the railroad station. They were here only sixty feet in thickness, but no note was made of the character of the different beds passed through. Probably the lower beds of stratified clays and the ancient soil above them, were not found here, and the beds passed through were only the surface soil and siib-soil and the true Drift deposits. From the soft and yielding character of the beds, a satisfactory natural section of them is rarely met with, and it is only when they
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.
Born hereA. Arnim White is born here
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Coatsburg. 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 Coatsburg.
In 1855, according to Wikipedia’s history of the town. Coatsburg’s post office opened in 1856, and the census of 1870 counted 192 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 →
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