Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 25% of U.S. towns. What drives it
Most of Ten Mile Creek was built recently: 7% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1967. Its Register listing is the Clarksburg School. Below: maps from 1908 on.
Ten Mile Creek dates its founding to 2020 (Wikidata).
More historic than 25% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Ten Mile Creek is more historic than 25% of U.S. towns. Its National Register listings hold the grade up; its age pulls it down.
Few Maryland towns list much on the Register (a typical Maryland town has 0.9 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Ten Mile Creek’s 8.4 sits above most of its state (67% of Maryland towns have fewer) while its 1 listings outnumber those of 51% 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 first neighbors to add old photos shape how Ten Mile Creek’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Ten Mile Creek. 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 Ten Mile Creek.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Ten Mile Creek yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Ten Mile Creek is a census-designated place in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. It was first listed as a CDP for the 2020 census, when it had a population of 1,012.
Ten Mile Creek was established in 2020.
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 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.
Nobody well known was born in Ten Mile Creek itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Old hamlets and crossroads still carry their names on the map.
Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
In 2020, according to Wikidata.
Ten Mile Creek is more historic than 25% 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.
One place: the Clarksburg School (listed 1975).
7% of Ten Mile Creek’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±12.4 points), against a typical 3.3% for a Maryland town; the median home was built in 1967.
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 the National Register of Historic Places (1), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps 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.
