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More historic than 14% of U.S. towns · #225 of 247 in Missouri. What drives it
Most of Town and Country was built recently: 3% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1983. Its Register listing is the Theodore Pappas A. House. Its Register listing is the Theodore Pappas A. House. Below: maps from 1933 on and the census since 1950.
Town and Country first appears in the census in 1950. Another post office, Altheim (1884), opened inside today’s city and later closed.
More historic than 14% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Town and Country is more historic than 14% of U.S. towns, #225 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 Town and Country’s 0.9 sits near the middle of its state (48% of Missouri towns have fewer) while its 1 listings outnumber those of 51% 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 Town and Country’s history is told.
From Wikipedia’s history of Town and Country.
As early as 1886, Town and Country was a farming town known as Altheim. In 1950, Town and Country was incorporated as a village, and re-incorporated as a fourth-class city 25 years later.
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
2013Interstate 270 at I-64, US 40 & US 61 exits - Town & …
2013Interstate 270 approaching I-64, US 40 & US 61 exits …
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2013Energizer Holdings in Town and Country - 2013
2013Eastern Bluebird
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2013Eastern Bluebird
2013Eastern Bluebird
2013Eastern Bluebird
2013Eastern Bluebird
2013Common Redpoll & House Finch on Principia Campus
2004MOMap-doton-Town and CountryEvery edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Town and Country. 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 Town and Country.
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.
Grew from 162 people in 1950 to 11,640 in 2020, more than tenfold.
8 censuses, 1950–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Town and Country’s Wikipedia page.
Nobody well known was born in Town and Country itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Another post office, Altheim, 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).
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Town and Country post office opened in 1950, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records). Wikidata gives 1975.
Town and Country is more historic than 14% of U.S. towns, #225 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.
One place: the Theodore Pappas A. House (listed 1979).
3% of Town and Country’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±1.2 points), against a typical 8.4% for a Missouri town; the median home was built in 1983.
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 Wikimedia Commons (12), the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, 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.
