Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Its Register listing is the Arthur P. Stitzel House. Most of Wildwood was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1961. Its Register listing is the Arthur P. Stitzel House. Below: maps from 1986 on and the census since 1970.
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 Wildwood’s history is told.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Wildwood yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Wildwood is a home rule-class city in Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States. As of the 2020 census, Wildwood had a population of 281.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 261 to 281 (+8%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Wildwood.
1986Louisville sheet · 1:100,000U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Wildwood.
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.
Between 247 and 412 people in every census since 1970.
6 censuses, 1970–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Wildwood’s Wikipedia page.
Nobody well known was born in Wildwood itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
One place: the Arthur P. Stitzel House (listed 1989).
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 Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (1), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia) 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.
