Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Most of Mariaville was built recently: 4% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1994. Below: maps from 1911 on and the census since 1810.
The Mariaville post office opened in 1833, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, North Mariaville (1854) and North Mariaville (1904), 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 Mariaville’s history is told.
Lost two-thirds of its people between 1860 and 1970, then grew 4-fold.
20 censuses, 1810–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Mariaville’s Wikipedia page.
Mariaville had its own post office from 1833 to 1914. Two other post offices 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).
From Wikipedia’s history of Mariaville.
Mariaville was incorporated in 1836. The town was named for Maria Matilda Bingham, the second daughter of William Bingham, a wealthy nonresident slave owner and early U.S. senator from Pennsylvania.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
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 Mariaville. 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 Mariaville.
Nobody well known was born in Mariaville itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Mariaville post office opened in 1833, 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 Wikimedia Commons (1), Wikipedia, 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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