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More historic than 79% of U.S. towns. What drives it
10 places in town are on the National Register, among them a historic district with 1 buildings. Below: 6 old photos and papers, maps from 1937 on, and the census since 1830.
Munfordville dates its founding to 1816 (Wikidata). The census first counted it in 1830.
More historic than 79% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Munfordville is more historic than 79% of U.S. towns. All 3 inputs are above most U.S. towns; its age ranks highest and its share of homes from before 1940 lowest.
Kentucky towns list more on the Register than most of the country (a typical Kentucky town has 29.9 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Munfordville’s 52.8 sits near the middle of its state (59% of Kentucky towns have fewer) while its 10 listings outnumber those of 76% of U.S. towns.
Founding year: Wikidata (other dates in Quick answers). Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
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.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Born hereCharles M. Harris is born here
Born hereThomas J. Wood is born here
In the archiveMajor Anderson of Terry's Texas Rangers, a lady of Woodson House, and General Richard W. …
Born hereJohn D. Craddock is born here
Born hereSimon Bolivar Buckner Jr. is born here
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
In the archiveMunfordville KY - Airplane View (NBY 429226)From Wikipedia’s history of Munfordville.
The settlement was once known as "Big Buffalo Crossing". The current name came from Richard Jones Munford, who donated the land to establish the new county seat in 1816. Munfordville was incorporated in 1858.
In 1862, the Civil War Battle of Munfordville took place in the town.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
2 decades in the archive, from the 1860s to the 1940s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Munfordville. 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 Munfordville.
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 Munfordville’s page.
Retake this view · +15Between 194 and 1,783 people in every census since 1830.
18 censuses, 1830–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Munfordville’s Wikipedia page.
Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.
Munfordville’s post office has been open since 1820.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
In 1816, according to Wikidata. Munfordville’s post office opened in 1820, and the census of 1830 counted 194 people here.
Munfordville is more historic than 79% of U.S. towns. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
10 listings: 9 buildings, among them the Alvey Cox House (listed 1980, the first), and 1 historic district, the Battle of Munfordville Site, with 1 contributing buildings.
15% of Munfordville’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±7.4 points), against a typical 5.9% for a Kentucky town; the median home was built in 1973.
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).
From Wikimedia Commons (4), the Library of Congress (2), the National Register of Historic Places (10), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, 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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