Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: maps from 1931 on and the census since 1880.
The Mauckport post office opened in 1827, 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 Mauckport’s history is told.
From Wikipedia’s history of Mauckport.
In the earliest times Daniel Boone and his brothers, most notably Squire Boone, were regularly in the area of Mauckport. Squire Boone settled in the area in 1806. Squire Boone's remains are just north of Mauckport in the Squire Boone Caverns.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Born hereStrother M. Stockslager is born here
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyPassages that mention Mauckport, cut from the printed page as they were published.
built im 1813, and leter eccupied by Ro J. Troewell > grandtather, The gonar; soldiers are buried on the hanks of Indi creek, one mite below Virginia, and Janded at this point about 1800 with several of his children first church was a Baptist, winch stood in the old cecietery town, ninied Daniel and Henry Funk and their families, MAUCKPORT The land on which the old town of Mauckport stands was owned by Frederick Mauck, who laid out the town. [fe came to biarrison I ae county in ISL The original plat was tiled i Recorder's ofiee May | seventh, 1X27, having een sworn to before samuel Reaszh, Justice of | Peace, April seventeenth, 1827. “The date of tie erection of Ue vid | :
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.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Mauckport. 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 Mauckport.
Between 46 and 290 people in every census since 1880.
15 censuses, 1880–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Mauckport’s Wikipedia page.
The Mauckport post office opened in 1827, 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 Wikimedia Commons (1), Wikipedia, 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.
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