Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Most of Damiansville was built recently: 9% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1978. Below: maps from 1906 on and the census since 1880.
Damiansville dates its founding to 1861 (Wikidata). The census first counted it in 1880.
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 Damiansville’s history is told.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Damiansville yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Damiansville is a village in Clinton County, Illinois, United States. The population was 564 at the 2020 census, up from 491 at the 2010 census.
Damiansville was established in 1861. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 491 to 564 (+15%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
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 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 Damiansville. 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 Damiansville.
Grew from 96 people in 1880 to 564 in 2020, 5 times over.
6 censuses, 1880–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Damiansville’s Wikipedia page.
Nobody well known was born in Damiansville itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Damiansville had its own post office from 1862 to 1912.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
In 1861, according to Wikidata. Damiansville’s post office opened in 1862, and the census of 1880 counted 96 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 U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
