Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Loch Lynn Heights first appears in the census in 1900.
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 Loch Lynn Heights’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Loch Lynn Heights. 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 Loch Lynn Heights.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Loch Lynn Heights yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Loch Lynn Heights is a town in Garrett County, Maryland, United States. The population was 493 at the 2020 census.
Its first post office opened in 1900. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 552 to 493 (-11%).
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.
Between 198 and 552 people in every census since 1900.
13 censuses, 1900–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Loch Lynn Heights’ Wikipedia page.
Nobody well known was born in Loch Lynn Heights itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Loch Lynn Heights post office opened in 1900, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
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 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.
