Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: Magicpiano · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of Coplin plantation was built recently: 3% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1992. Its Register listing is the Coplin Plantation Schoolhouse. Below: maps from 1928 on and the census since 1860.
The Coplin plantation post office opened in 1893, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Coplin (1893), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
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 Coplin plantation’s history is told.
Lost two-thirds of its people between 1860 and 1960, then grew 3-fold.
17 censuses, 1860–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Coplin plantation’s Wikipedia page.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Coplin plantation yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Coplin Plantation is a plantation in Franklin County, Maine, United States. The population was 131 at the 2020 census.
Its first post office opened in 1893. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 166 to 131 (-21%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyEvery edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Coplin plantation. 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 Coplin plantation.
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 Coplin plantation itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Another post office, Coplin, opened and closed inside today’s town.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Coplin plantation post office opened in 1893, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
One place: the Coplin Plantation Schoolhouse (listed 1997).
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 (1), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (1), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia) and the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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