Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: the census since 1880.
The Urich post office opened in 1872, the earliest record of the town by 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 Urich’s history is told.
From Wikipedia’s history of Urich.
Urich was platted in 1871. The city was named for General Uhrich, a figure in the Siege of Strasbourg. A post office called Urich has been in operation since 1872.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Urich, cut from the printed page as they were published.
that way. November 13, 1884, a petition raimerously signed was presented to the officials asking the location of a depot on sections 15 or 16, where Urich now stands. The depot was not located at once, but the town was on land belonging to T. J. McClung and J. L. Wright. The inland village of Urich crowned a beautiful eminence about two miles north of the site for the new town. The scramble was on between building houses and moving those already built. Soon the town on the prairie that had been fathered by Jonathan Miller, Mr. Wells and Capt. William
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.
Between 71 and 538 people in every census since 1880.
15 censuses, 1880–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Urich’s Wikipedia page.
Nobody well known was born in Urich itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Urich’s post office has been open since 1872.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
The Urich post office opened in 1872, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
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 (1), Wikipedia, 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.
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