Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1913 on, and the census since 1910.
Mulberry dates its founding to 1875 (Wikipedia’s history). The census first counted it in 1910.
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 Mulberry’s history is told.
Peaked at 2,697 in 1920; 409 people lived here in 2020.
12 censuses, 1910–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Mulberry’s Wikipedia page.
From Wikipedia’s history of Mulberry.
Mulberry was founded about 1875 as a mining town. Mulberry was named from a grove of wild mulberry trees that stood on a former Indian camping and hunting site, where the town was laid out.
The first post office at Mulberry (called Mulberry Grove until 1892) was established in 1869.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Mulberry, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Mulberry in 1876. built up perhaps the largest practice in the county, removed to St. Louis, Missouri, in 1893. where he is now located. Dr. B. F. Wilson, father of Dr. Allen Wilson, a native of Virginia, a courtly southern gentleman, with a fine literary education, a graduate from the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, an ex-Confederate army surgeon, located in Mulberry in [882 and, notwithstandinghis advanced age of eighty-three years, continued in active practice until a very short time before his death, which occurred in 1891.
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
the overland route, and then lived at Maysville in Benton county, Arkansas; he spent three years in Indian Territory, was at Joplin, Missouri, for a time, and later came to Pittsburg, this county, and from there to Mulberry, where he has been a resident for some years. Fie took his position as rural mail carrier in 1901, and he has filled his position to the satisfaction of all concerned and in a manner most creditable to himself. He is affiliated with Mulberry Post No. 183. ( i. A. R„ Department of Kansas.
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 Mulberry. 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 Mulberry.
Fire insurance maps drew every building, what it was made of and what it was used for, so insurers could price the risk of fire. Pick a sheet.
1913Sheet 1 of 2Sanborn Map Company, via the Library of Congress. Editions 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 Mulberry’s page.
Retake this view · +15Mulberry’s post office has been open since 1892. Another post office, Mulberry Grove, opened and closed inside today’s town.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
In 1875, according to Wikipedia’s history of the town. Mulberry’s post office opened in 1869, and the census of 1910 counted 997 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 Wikimedia Commons (2), 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, Sanborn fire insurance maps (Library of Congress) 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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2004