Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: Bhall87 · CC BY-SA 3.0Its Register listings are the Delaware River Warren Truss Bridge. Below: maps from 1888 on and the census since 1900.
The Powhattan Township post office opened in 1887, the earliest record of the town by name. Three smaller post offices, Grand Prairie (1870), Discord (1874) and Comet (1881), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
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 Powhattan Township’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Powhattan Township. 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 Powhattan Township.
Three other post offices 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).
From Wikipedia’s history of Powhattan Township.
Powhattan was founded circa 1877. The city was named for the father of Pocahontas, who resided in Jamestown, Virginia. It was originally a stagecoach station named Locknane.
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.
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyThe country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Between 69 and 247 people in every census since 1900.
13 censuses, 1900–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Powhattan Township’s Wikipedia page.
Nobody well known was born in Powhattan Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Powhattan Township post office opened in 1887, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
2 listings: 1 structure.
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), the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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