Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Most of Moreauville was built recently: 6% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1978. Its Register listings are the Thomas A. Lemoine House and the Moreauville High School. Its Register listings are the Thomas A. Lemoine House and the Moreauville High School. Below: 5 old photos and papers, maps from 1941 on, and the census since 1910.
The Moreauville post office opened in 1849, the earliest record of the town by name.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
BuiltThomas A. Lemoine House is built
BuiltMoreauville High School is built
In the archiveAerial photograph of flood, unidentified stretch of lower Mississippi River
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyWikipedia doesn’t have a history of Moreauville yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Moreauville is a village in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, United States. As of the 2020 census, Moreauville had a population of 984.
Its first post office opened in 1849. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 929 to 984 (+6%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
One decade in the archive so far: the 1920s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Moreauville. 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 Moreauville.
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 Moreauville’s page.
Retake this view · +15The 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 600 and 984 people in every census since 1910.
12 censuses, 1910–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Moreauville’s Wikipedia page.
Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
The Moreauville post office opened in 1849, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
Two places: the Thomas A. Lemoine House (listed 1985) and the Moreauville High School (2008).
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 (3), the Library of Congress (2), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (2), 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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