Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 42% of U.S. towns · #58 of 100 in Mississippi. What drives it
Most of Saltillo was built recently: 0.9% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 2000. Its Register listing is the Barlow Burrow House. Below: maps from 1921 on and the census since 1870.
The Saltillo post office opened in 1849, the earliest record of the town by name.
More historic than 42% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Saltillo is more historic than 42% of U.S. towns, #58 of 100 in Mississippi. Its age holds the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls it down.
Mississippi towns list more on the Register than most of the country (a typical Mississippi town has 71.9 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Saltillo’s 2.0 sits near the middle of its state (42% of Mississippi towns have fewer) while its 1 listings outnumber those of 51% of U.S. towns.
Founding year: the first post office (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 Saltillo’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Saltillo. 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 Saltillo.
From Wikipedia’s history of Saltillo.
By November 1860, the Mobile and Ohio Railroad had built a line through Saltillo. A station had been established by 1874.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
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 148 people in 1870 to 4,922 in 2020, more than tenfold.
15 censuses, 1870–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Saltillo’s Wikipedia page.
Nobody well known was born in Saltillo itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Saltillo’s post office has been open since 1849.
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 Saltillo post office opened in 1849, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
Saltillo is more historic than 42% of U.S. towns, #58 of 100 in Mississippi. 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 Barlow Burrow House (listed 1984).
0.9% of Saltillo’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±1.6 points), against a typical 4.5% for a Mississippi town; the median home was built in 2000.
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 (3), Wikidata (1), 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.
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