Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Most of South Hills was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 2001. Below: maps from 1899 on.
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 South Hills’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of South Hills. 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 South Hills.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of South Hills yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
South Hills is a census-designated place (CDP) in Jefferson County, Montana, United States. As of the 2020 census, South Hills had a population of 644.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 517 to 644 (+25%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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.
Nobody well known was born in South Hills itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
One place: the Grant-Marshall Lime Kiln Historic District, The (listed 2017).
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 the National Register of Historic Places (1) and U.S. Geological Survey historical maps. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
