Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Wheatland Farm Historic District · Photo: SharonPapierdreams · CC BY-SA 4.03 places in town are on the National Register, among them a historic district with 7 buildings.
The Rinehart Township post office opened in 1902, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, Rhinehart (1896) and Rinehart (1902), 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 Rinehart Township’s history is told.
Two 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).
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Rinehart Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Rinehart Township is a township in Dickinson County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, its population was 232.
Its first post office opened in 1902. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 212 to 232 (+9%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
The 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.
Nobody well known was born in Rinehart Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Rinehart Township post office opened in 1902, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
Three places: the Prospect Park Farm (listed 1982), the Wheatland Farm Historic District (2004) and the J.S. Hollinger Farmstead (2010).
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 the National Register of Historic Places (3), 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.
