Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 3% of U.S. towns · #242 of 247 in Missouri. What drives it
Most of Green Park was built recently: 2% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1966. Below: 3 old photos and papers, maps from 1933 on, and the census since 2000.
Green Park first appears in the census in 2000.
More historic than 3% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Green Park is more historic than 3% of U.S. towns, #242 of 247 in Missouri. Its National Register listings hold the grade up; its age pulls it down.
Missouri towns list about as much on the Register as the country (a typical Missouri town has 2.4 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Green Park’s 0.0 sits below most of its state (23% of Missouri towns have fewer) while its 0 listings outnumber those of 23% of U.S. towns.
Founding year: the first census (other dates in Quick answers). Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →
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 Green Park’s history is told.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Green Park yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Green Park is a city in Concord Township, St. Louis County, Missouri, United States. The population was 2,705 at the 2020 census.
Its first post office opened in 2000. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 2,622 to 2,705 (+3%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Green Park. 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 Green Park.
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Green Park’s page.
Retake this view · +15Between 2,622 and 2,705 people in every census since 2000.
3 censuses, 2000–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Green Park’s Wikipedia page.
Nobody well known was born in Green Park itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Green Park post office opened in 2000, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
Green Park is more historic than 3% of U.S. towns, #242 of 247 in Missouri. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
2% of Green Park’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±2.1 points), against a typical 8.4% for a Missouri town; the median home was built in 1966.
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).
From the Library of Congress (3), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia) 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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