Founding year: the first Maury post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).
History grade
What drives Maury’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Maury is among the newest of U.S. towns. Its National Register listings hold the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls it down.
D−
HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Maury’s overall grade.
North Carolina towns list more on the Register than most of the country (a typical North Carolina town has 12.5 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Maury’s 0.0 sits below most of its state (19% of North Carolina towns have fewer) while its 0 listings outnumber those of 23% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would still be D−. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±10.8 points). The founding year is the first post office, not a stated founding date.
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 →
What stands out about Maury’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Maury yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Maury is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Greene County, North Carolina, United States. As of the 2020 census, Maury had a population of 1,404. Maury has a post office with ZIP code 28554. North Carolina Highway 123 and North Carolina Highway 903 intersect in the community. Maury is home to two prisons, Greene Correctional Institution and Eastern Correctional Institution, as well as a site belonging to North Carolina Department of Transportation.
Its first post office opened in 1909. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 1,685 to 1,404 (-17%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Timeline
Maury, 1904 to 1914
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Questions about Maury’s history
What year was Maury founded?
The Maury post office opened in 1909, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
How does Maury rank for history?
Maury is among the newest of U.S. towns. 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.
How old are the homes in Maury?
0.0% of Maury’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±10.8 points), against a typical 4.1% for a North Carolina town; the median home was built in 1977.
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 U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, 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.
