Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: maps from 1940 on and the census since 1890.
The Victoria post office opened in 1837, 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 Victoria’s history is told.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Victoria yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Victoria is a village in Knox County, Illinois, United States. The population was 268 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Galesburg Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Its first post office opened in 1837. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 316 to 268 (-15%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Peaked at 469 in 1950; 268 people lived here in 2020.
14 censuses, 1890–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Victoria’s Wikipedia page.
Passages that mention Victoria, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Volume IV is the sixth volume of the Victoria History of Shropshire to be published, and the fifth since the revival of the project outlined in the Editorial Note to Volume VIII (1968). The partnership between the Shropshire County Council (with the generously maintained support of the Walker Trust) and the University of London has continued, supervision of the History's work being devolved by the Council’s Leisure Activities (from 1988 Leisure Services) Committee on the Victoria County History Advisory Board. From 1981 to 1985 Mr. V.
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 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 Victoria. 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 Victoria.
The Victoria post office opened in 1837, 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 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.
