Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Its Register listing is the Memorial Bandstand of Long Point. Below: maps from 1983 on and the census since 1900.
The Long Point post office opened in 1847, 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 Long Point’s history is told.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Long Point yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Long Point is a village in Livingston County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2020 census, Long Point had a population of 204.
Its first post office opened in 1847. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 226 to 204 (-10%).
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 SurveyPassages that mention Long Point, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Absalom Hallam was the first Postmaster. He was appointed to the office soon after his settlement, and kept the same in his house a few years, when it was moved to the house of E. L. Wheeler, who was appointed Postmaster. The office had a kind of migratory existence, until the village of Long Point was laid out, when it was permanently established at that place, with Dr. J. N. Markle as Postmaster.
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
Besides the ones already mentioned, the Methodists have a society organized at the village of Long Point. A room is hired and regular services are held. As before stated, in 1858 the township of Long Point was organized. The following are the names of the persons elected to the respective offices : J. P.
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.
Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Long Point.
1983Long Point sheet · 1:24,000U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Long Point.
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.
Between 204 and 313 people in every census since 1900.
13 censuses, 1900–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Long Point’s Wikipedia page.
The Long Point post office opened in 1847, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
One place: the Memorial Bandstand of Long Point (listed 2023).
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 the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, 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.