Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: 1 old photo or paper and the census since 1900.
The Mooreland post office opened in 1882, 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 Mooreland’s history is told.
From Wikipedia’s history of Mooreland.
Mooreland was platted in 1882 on farmland belonging to Miles M. Moore. A post office has been in operation in Mooreland since 1882.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Peaked at 497 in 1950; 335 people lived here in 2020.
13 censuses, 1900–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Mooreland’s Wikipedia page.
Passages that mention Mooreland, cut from the printed page as they were published.
postoffice, two miles north of Messick, at a place commonly known as Goose Creek. After the construction of the railroad through the county, northeast from New Castle, and the establishment of the station of Messick and the town of Mooreland, the office was discontinued. ROGERSVILLE. NAME OF POSTMASTER. DATE OF APPOINTMENT.
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On December 12, 1868, he and his two brothers jointly purchased the Lewis Pouts' farm, consisting of one hundred and twenty acres of land, lying near the site of the present town of Mooreland, for which they were to pay fifty dollars per acre. They went in debt for the whole purchase price of the land, except four hundred dollars of Henry Brown's ov/n savings which were applied in payment on the farm. Shortly after the completion of this purchase, his two brothers desiring to withdraw, Henr}' Brown bought out their interests in the land and assumed the indebtedness. After twelve years of unremitting toil, he
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.
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Mooreland’s page.
Retake this view · +15Nobody well known was born in Mooreland itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
The Mooreland post office opened in 1882, 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), the Library of Congress (1), Wikipedia, 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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