Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1972 on, and the census since 1910.
Waldron dates its founding to 1900 (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 Waldron’s history is told.
From Wikipedia’s history of Waldron.
Waldron was founded about 1900. The first post office in Waldron was established in 1902. In the 1901-1902 timeframe, Waldron became the point where the rail lines of the Choctaw Northern Railroad and the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway crossed. Both lines through the town were subsequently abandoned.
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.
In the archiveStandard atlas of Harper County, Kansas - including a plat book of the villages, cities a…
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyOne decade in the archive so far: the 1900s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Waldron.
1972Waldron sheet · 1:24,000U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Waldron.
Between 9 and 262 people in every census since 1910.
12 censuses, 1910–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Waldron’s Wikipedia page.
Nobody well known was born in Waldron itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
In 1900, according to Wikipedia’s history of the town. Waldron’s post office opened in 1902, and the census of 1910 counted 262 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) 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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