Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: maps from 1889 on and the census since 1890.
The Mount Hope post office opened in 1873, 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 Mount Hope’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Mount Hope. 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 Mount Hope.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Mount Hope yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Mount Hope is a city in Sedgwick County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 806.
Its first post office opened in 1873. Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 813 in 2010, 806 in 2020.
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Mount Hope, cut from the printed page as they were published.
field and Wellington in view. A business men's league was called and every human in the county was for the bonds. The vote supposedly was for a railroad from St. Louis to Wichita and one fork to Viola township and one to Mount Hope. The railroad got as far as Wichita and stopped. It then appeared that the railroad intended to " go on. ' ' The vote was inseparable ; Wichita stood "pat" on three lines or no bonds; and the result was "no bonds." Two men of all others claimed the crown for the Frisco
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 Survey
Born hereHoward J. McMurray is born hereBetween 241 and 830 people in every census since 1890.
14 censuses, 1890–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Mount Hope’s Wikipedia page.
Mount Hope’s post office has been open since 1873.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
The Mount Hope post office opened in 1873, 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 (2), 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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