Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Its Register listings are the Winnetoon Jail and the Winnetoon Public School. Below: maps from 1974 on and the census since 1910.
The Winnetoon post office opened in 1891, the earliest record of the town by name.
Winnetoon was named after the Wisconsin farm of an acquaintance of a railroad official.
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 Winnetoon’s history is told.
From Wikipedia’s history of Winnetoon.
Winnetoon was founded circa 1892 and was incorporated as a village in 1900. It was named after the Wisconsin farm of an acquaintance of a railroad official.
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.
BuiltWinnetoon Jail is built
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Winnetoon. 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 Winnetoon.
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.
Between 54 and 220 people in every census since 1910.
12 censuses, 1910–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Winnetoon’s Wikipedia page.
Nobody well known was born in Winnetoon itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Winnetoon’s post office has been open since 1891.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
The Winnetoon post office opened in 1891, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
Two places: the Winnetoon Jail (listed 1995) and the Winnetoon Public School (2020).
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 (2), 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.
