Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Most of Teachey was built recently: 4% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1988. Below: maps from 1984 on and the census since 1880.
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 Teachey’s history is told.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Teachey yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Teachey is a town in Duplin County, North Carolina, United States. At the 2020 census, the population was 448.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 376 to 448 (+19%).
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 U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Teachey.
1984Rose Hill 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 Teachey.
Grew from 56 people in 1880 to 448 in 2020, 8 times over.
14 censuses, 1880–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Teachey’s Wikipedia page.
Nobody well known was born in Teachey itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
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 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.
