Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: maps from 1962 on and the census since 1960.
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 Cliff Village’s history is told.
Lost half of its people between 1970 and 1990, then more than doubled.
7 censuses, 1960–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Cliff Village’s Wikipedia page.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Cliff Village yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Cliff Village is a village in Newton County, Missouri, United States. As of the 2020 census, Cliff Village had a population of 40. It is part of the Joplin metropolitan area.
Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 40 in 2010, 40 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.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Cliff Village. 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 Cliff Village.
Nobody well known was born in Cliff Village itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
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 U.S. Geological Survey historical maps and U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
