Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Its Register listing is the Kevin Depot. Below: maps from 1986 on and the census since 1930.
The Kevin post office opened in 1910, 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 Kevin’s history is told.
Peaked at 375 in 1960; 154 people lived here in 2020.
9 censuses, 1930–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Kevin’s Wikipedia page.
From Wikipedia’s history of Kevin.
The Kevin Depot was built by the Great Northern Railway in 1903. The town was founded in 1910 with a post office established the same year. Oil was discovered in the Kevin Sunburst Oil Field in 1922. The Montana West Oil Company established a refinery in the 1920s which was closed in 1977.
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.
Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Kevin.
1986Kevin South sheet · 1:24,000U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Kevin.
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.
The Kevin post office opened in 1910, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
One place: the Kevin Depot (listed 1980).
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 Wikidata (1), 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.
