Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: maps from 1960 on and the census since 1870.
Blountsville dates its founding to 1832 (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 Blountsville’s history is told.
From Wikipedia’s history of Blountsville.
Blountsville was laid out and platted in 1832, and named for one of its founders, Andrew D. Blount. A post office was established at Blountsville in 1835, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1964.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Peaked at 229 in 1950; 98 people lived here in 2020.
14 censuses, 1870–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Blountsville’s Wikipedia page.
Passages that mention Blountsville, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Major Templin returned to Blountsville after the war and entered the mercantile business there which he continued for three years or more. The venture, however, was not successful and he shortly afterwards went into the sawmill business which he conducted until 1880 when he again embarked in the dry-goods business first at Blountsville, remaining there until 1882, when he removed to Losantville, Randolph County, Indiana, where he has since continued to reside and where he has maintained a large general or dei:)artment store. This last venture has met with deserved success.
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
This office was located in the western part of Stony Creek Township, at the old town of Rogersville, three and a half miles southwest of Blountsville. After the establishment of the Rural Free Delivery Svstem, the office was discontinued.
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 Blountsville. 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 Blountsville.
Nobody well known was born in Blountsville itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Blountsville had its own post office from 1835 to 1964.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
In 1832, according to Wikipedia’s history of the town. Blountsville’s post office opened in 1835, and the census of 1870 counted 178 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 Wikipedia, 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.
