Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Its Register listing is the Christian A. Bergt Farm. Its Register listing is the Christian A. Bergt Farm. Below: maps from 1925 on and the census since 1880.
The Frohna post office opened in 1870, the earliest record of the town by name.
Frohna is named after the town of Niederfrohna (German: Lower Frohna) in the Zwickau district of the German region of Saxony.
Although the German colony was initially called Niederfrohna, the Nieder- was eventually dropped from the 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 Frohna’s history is told.
From Wikipedia’s history of Frohna.
Frohna is one of seven towns and villages in the area founded by German immigrants in 1839. Frohna and the others -- Altenburg, Dresden, Johannisberg, Paitzdorf, Seelitz, and Wittenberg—were all named by settlers for towns in the Saxony region of their native country.
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 Survey
2013Frohna, Missouri, watertower
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2013Frohna, Missouri, road sign
2013Frohna, Missouri, die kleine Schule
2013Frohna, Missouri, Saxon Lutheran Memorial
2013Frohna, Missouri, Saxon Lutheran Memorial cabins
2013Frohna, Missouri, Saxon Lutheran Memorial cabin 2
2013Frohna, Missouri, Saxon Lutheran Memorial Cabin 1
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2004MOMap-doton-FrohnaEvery edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Frohna. 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 Frohna.
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 97 and 265 people in every census since 1880.
9 censuses, 1880–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Frohna’s Wikipedia page.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Frohna post office opened in 1870, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
One place: the Christian A. Bergt Farm (listed 1980).
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 (10), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, 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.
