Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Its Register listing is the Amo THI & E Interurban Depot/Substation. Below: maps from 1953 on and the census since 1880.
Amo dates its founding to 1850 (Wikipedia’s history). 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 Amo’s history is told.
From Wikipedia’s history of Amo.
The town was laid out as Morristown in 1850 by Joseph Morris. The present name of Amo (meaning "I love" in Latin) was adopted in 1855. Amo was incorporated as a town in 1913.
The Amo THI & E Interurban Depot/Substation was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.
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Passages that mention Amo, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Two miles west of Pecksburg, on sections 2, 3, 34 and 35, is the town of Amo, one of the voting places of the township. This village was laid out in 1850 by Joseph Morris and was originally Morristown, The first "house in this village was constructed by William Tomlinson. The present town has a population of about three hundred people and is incorporated, this having been voted in 1913. The board of trustees is composed of G.
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The Friends church at the town of Amo was organized about the year of 1840. A log church was constructed as the first house of worship, but this was quickly succeeded by a frame structure, which was used for forty years and then gave way to the new structure, which was completed in the fall of 1883, at a cost of fifteen hundred dollars. Among the early members of this society were Philip Johnson, John Cosner, Annuel Edwards and Asael Hunt.
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Two miles west of Pecksburg, on sections 2, 3, 3i and 35, is Amo, the voting place of the township, and a prosperous place of 200 inhabitants. It was laid out in 1S50 by Joseph Morris, and called Morriitown, which name was dropped for that of Amo by some of its classical-minded citizens. The first iiouse was built by "William Tomlinson, who lives yet in the village. The business firms of to-day are: E. B. Owen, general store; Cook & Masten, grocery and meat market; Thomas Mendenhall, grocery; Roberts
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 SurveyEvery edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Amo. 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 Amo.
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 200 and 444 people in every census since 1880.
12 censuses, 1880–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Amo’s Wikipedia page.
In 1850, according to Wikipedia’s history of the town. Amo’s post office opened in 1855, and the census of 1880 counted 200 people here.
One place: the Amo THI & E Interurban Depot/Substation (listed 2007).
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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