Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: old-book passages.
The Lynd post office opened in 1868, 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 Lynd’s history is told.
From Wikipedia’s history of Lynd.
Lynd was platted in 1888. The city's namesake is state senator James Lynd, who was killed in the Attack at the Lower Sioux Agency.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Lynd, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Although the population of the county was still very small, the year 1871 witnessed the founding of two villages in the Lynd settlement, about two miles apart — Upper Lynd, on the south side of the Redwood river, on the southeast quarter of section 33, about one and one-half miles above the present village
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GEORGE MOPFATT (1890) is manager and grain buyer for the E. S. Mooers Elevator Company at Lynd. He has held the office of justice of the peace in that village for three years and is a land holder in Lyons township and a property holder in the village of Lynd.
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Nobody well known was born in Lynd itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Lynd’s post office has been open since 1868.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
The Lynd post office opened in 1868, 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 →
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