Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Most of The Highlands was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 2000. Below: maps from 1891 on.
The Highlands dates its founding to 2017 (Wikipedia’s history).
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 The Highlands’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of The Highlands. 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 The Highlands.
From Wikipedia’s history of The Highlands.
The Highlands was incorporated from 21 subdivisions surrounding the Crazy Horse Golf Club in 2017, in order to provide tax dollars for deteriorating roads. The Highlands was the first new city in Reno County to be incorporated in 65 years since the incorporation of Willowbrook.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Nobody well known was born in The Highlands itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
In 2017, according to Wikipedia’s history of the town.
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 Wikipedia and U.S. Geological Survey historical maps. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
