Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 79% of U.S. towns. What drives it
Its Register listing is the North Wilmot Union Meetinghouse. Below: 2 old photos and papers, maps from 1928 on, and the census since 1810.
Wilmot dates its founding to 1794 (Wikidata). The census first counted it in 1810.
More historic than 79% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Wilmot is more historic than 79% of U.S. towns. All 3 inputs are above most U.S. towns; its age ranks highest and its National Register listings lowest.
New Hampshire towns list more on the Register than most of the country (a typical New Hampshire town has 9.5 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Wilmot’s 13.4 sits near the middle of its state (53% of New Hampshire towns have fewer) while its 2 historic buildings outnumber those of 60% of U.S. towns.
Founding year: Wikidata (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 →
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 Wilmot’s history is told.
Lost two-thirds of its people between 1850 and 1950, then grew 3-fold.
22 censuses, 1810–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Wilmot’s Wikipedia page.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
In the archiveWinslow House, Mount Kearsarge
In the archiveBlackwater River, Wilmot Flat, NH
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyFrom Wikipedia’s history of Wilmot.
Incorporated in 1807 from part of New London, the Kearsarge gore, and a small piece of New Chester (later renamed Hill), the town took its name from Dr. James Wilmot, an English clergyman who had spoken out against England's treatment of the American colonies. Dr. Wilmot was rector at Barton-on-the-Heath in Warwickshire, England.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Wilmot, cut from the printed page as they were published.
L., and res. on the Jacob Dole place near his father. After farming for two years lie began lumbering in Wilmot, and built a saw-mill and clapboard-mill about a mile above Wilmot Centre, which he ran for three years. Finally, after engaging in various occupations, he settled down in Franklin, and for a quarter-century peddled tinware for John H. Rowell in the towns of Merrimack county. In 1890 he bought the Samuel Burpee place on Burpee hill, and res. there till his death, after
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laboriously set for the first four districts were subjected to numerous " improvements" within the ensuing twenty years, while districts 5 and 6, which lay in that part of New London set off to Wilmot, passed out of the town's jurisdiction in 1807. In 1815 a new district, known as No. 5, was constituted, and included lots Nos. 70, 55, 54, 35, 34, 22, 23, and all that part of 24 lying northeasterly of the outlet of Pleasant pond. This
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
2 decades in the archive, from the 1900s to the 1910s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Wilmot. 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 Wilmot.
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Wilmot’s page.
Retake this view · +15The 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.
Wilmot had its own post office from 1823 to 1967.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
In 1794, according to Wikidata. Wilmot’s post office opened in 1823, and the census of 1810 counted 298 people here.
Wilmot is more historic than 79% 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.
One place: the North Wilmot Union Meetinghouse (listed 1989).
21% of Wilmot’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±5.5 points), against a typical 17% for a New Hampshire town; the median home was built in 1988.
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).
From Wikimedia Commons (5), the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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