Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Most of Mayersville was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1982. Its Register listing is the Unita Blackwell House. Below: 2 old photos and papers, maps from 1970 on, and the census since 1880.
The Mayersville post office opened in 1872, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Gibson (1871), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
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 Mayersville’s history is told.
Lost half of its people between 1880 and 1930, then grew 3-fold.
10 censuses, 1880–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Mayersville’s Wikipedia page.
From Wikipedia’s history of Mayersville.
Native Americans had lived in this area since prehistoric times. The Mayersville Archeological Site, added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, is on privately owned land. It contains the remains of earthwork mounds constructed primarily in the Mayersville phase (AD 1200–1400) of the earlier Mississippian culture.
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.
In the archiveThe village blacksmith, Mayersville, Issaquena County, Mississippi circa
In the archiveMayersville Mississippi mapped by USGS in 1970
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey2 decades in the archive, from the 1930s to the 1970s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Mayersville. 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 Mayersville.
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 Mayersville’s page.
Retake this view · +15The 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.
Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.
Mayersville’s post office has been open since 1872. Another post office, Gibson, 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).
The Mayersville post office opened in 1872, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
One place: the Unita Blackwell House (listed 2022).
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 (3), 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.
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