Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: maps from 1948 on and the census since 1930.
Tindall dates its founding to 1872 (Wikipedia’s history). The census first counted it in 1930.
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 Tindall’s history is told.
Tindall had its own post office from 1876 to 1967. Two other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
From Wikipedia’s history of Tindall.
Tindall was laid out in 1872 when the railroad was extended to that point. A post office was established at Tindall in 1869, and remained in operation until 1967. The city has the name of Jacob A. Tindall, an officer in the Civil War.
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Passages that mention Tindall, cut from the printed page as they were published.
No. 62, of range 24, and sections 5, 6, 7, 8, 17, 18, 19, 20, 29, 30, 31 and 32, of township No. 62, and range 23, was to be known as Lincoln township. There are no towns of note in the district, and but one known by name, Tindall. It is a railroad station, has a depot building, six houses, a good-sized corn-crib, and a small cattle-yard. It is situated on rather low ground, the houses are comfortable, the gardens of good size, and the door-yards covering any amount of land required. This is Tindall, the metropolis of Lincoln township. Its mayor
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11, 1867; Frank, born October 5, 1870; Minard, born January 30, 1873; Merritt, born May 24, 1874; and James, born December 16, 1879. While in Michigan he was an active member of the A. F. & A. M. His farm is located near Tindall Station on the Rock Island road. He also owns a large interest in a saw-mill in Mercer county, to the attention of which he devotes a great deal of his time.
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and at three o'clock p. m. of the same day the last spike had been driven at the depot. A vast crowd was gathered and ere the ring of the hammer had ceased " three cheers and a tiger" rent the air, and Trenton was in railroad communication with the outside world. A free ride to Tindall and return was given those who wished to go on the construction train, the people
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
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 SurveyWeddings 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 Tindall. 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 Tindall.
Between 46 and 134 people in every census since 1930.
10 censuses, 1930–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Tindall’s Wikipedia page.
Nobody well known was born in Tindall itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
In 1872, according to Wikipedia’s history of the town. Tindall’s post office opened in 1869, and the census of 1930 counted 134 people here.
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 Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
