Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Its Register listing is the Gibbon Village Hall. Below: maps from 1964 on and the census since 1890.
The Gibbon post office opened in 1883, 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.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Gibbon’s history is told.
From Wikipedia’s history of Gibbon.
Gibbon originated as a railway town that was first settled by German and Scandinavian immigrants around 1865. The town was incorporated in 1887 and named for General John Gibbon, a commandant at Fort Snelling from 1880 to 1882. By 1900, the town had grown to a population of 545.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
2016United States Post Office, Gibbon, Minnesota 55335
2016US Post Office - Gibbon, Minnesota 55335
2016State Bank of
2016South Central Grain & Energy
2016Gibbon, Minnesota Water Tower
2016Gibbon Fire Department Minnesota
2016City Hall
2014Gibbon, MN
2013Wayside Rest
2013Wayside Rest - Gibbon, MN - panoramio (4)
2013Wayside Rest - Gibbon, MN - panoramio (3)
2013Wayside Rest - Gibbon, MN - panoramio (2)
2013Wayside Rest - Gibbon, MN - panoramio (1)
2013Corn Stalks at Wayside Rest
20132013-0415-GibbonVillageHallThe U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Gibbon.
1964Gibbon sheet · 1:24,000U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Gibbon.
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.
Between 282 and 896 people in every census since 1890.
14 censuses, 1890–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Gibbon’s Wikipedia page.
Nobody well known was born in Gibbon itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
The Gibbon post office opened in 1883, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
One place: the Gibbon Village Hall (listed 1982).
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 (15), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (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.
