Founding year: the first Gray post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).
History grade
What drives Gray’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Gray is more historic than 18% of U.S. towns, #111 of 161 in Louisiana. Its age holds the grade up; its National Register listings pull it down.
C−
HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Gray’s overall grade.
Louisiana towns list more on the Register than most of the country (a typical Louisiana town has 3.8 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Gray’s 0.0 sits below most of its state (21% of Louisiana towns have fewer) while its 0 listings outnumber those of 23% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from D to C−. The pre-1940 share (±2.8 points) is firm at this size. The founding year is the first post office, not a stated founding date.
Founding year: the first post office (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 →
What stands out about Gray’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Gray. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1892Gibson sheet · 1:62,500
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Gray.
Places that used to be
Old corners, places now gone and burying grounds
Gray’s post office has been open since 1898.
Hamlets and corners on the map
AllemandCountry Boy Mobile Home ParkFairlaneLazy AcresMobile Estates Mobile Home Park
Gone or out of use
Southland StripairportSouthland Strip Number 2airport
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Gray
Garden of MemoriesHalfway
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
The story so far
Gray, in brief
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Gray yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Gray is a census-designated place (CDP) in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana. The population was 5,518 in 2020. It is part of the Houma–Bayou Cane–Thibodaux metropolitan statistical area.
Its first post office opened in 1898. Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 5,584 in 2010, 5,518 in 2020.
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
The Gray post office opened in 1898, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
How does Gray rank for history?
Gray is more historic than 18% of U.S. towns, #111 of 161 in Louisiana. 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.
How old are the homes in Gray?
4% of Gray’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±2.8 points), against a typical 3.4% for a Louisiana town; the median home was built in 1987.
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 (1), 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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