Founding year: the first Maywood post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Wikidata: 1894.
History grade
What drives Maywood’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Maywood is more historic than 65% of U.S. towns, #217 of 468 in New Jersey. Its share of homes from before 1940 holds the grade up; its age pulls it down.
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HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Maywood’s overall grade.
New Jersey towns list more on the Register than most of the country (a typical New Jersey town has 3.7 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Maywood’s 4.0 sits near the middle of its state (51% of New Jersey towns have fewer) while its 4 listings outnumber those of 68% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from C+ to A−. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±5.2 points). The founding year is the first post office, not a stated founding date; Wikidata’s 1894 falls in the same era, so the grade doesn’t depend on which one is used.
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 Maywood’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Maywood. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1888Paterson sheet · 1:62,500
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Maywood.
The story so far
Maywood, in brief
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Maywood yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Maywood is a borough in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 10,080, an increase of 525 (+5.5%) from the 2010 census count of 9,555, which in turn reflected an increase of 32 (+0.3%) from the 9,523 counted in the 2000 census. Maywood was incorporated as a borough on June 29, 1894, from portions of Midland Township, based on the results of a referendum held that day. The borough was formed during the "Boroughitis" phenomenon then sweeping through Bergen County, in which 26 boroughs were formed in the county in 1894 alone. The borough's name came from the name of a station established in the area by the New Jersey Mi…
Its first post office opened in 1872. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 9,555 to 10,080 (+5%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
From the old history books
What they wrote about Maywood in 1900
Passages that mention Maywood, cut from the printed page as they were published.
History of Bergen county, New Jersey1900 · page 324Read the page →
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The Maywood Art Tile Company whose works and land are situated near the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad tracks, west of the Maywood station, is the chief industrial establishment of the thriving Borough of Maywood. This company was first organized and the works built in the year 1890, under the name of the Elterich Art Tile Stove Company with Mr. Gustav L. Jaeger and Henry Lindenmeyer as principal stockholders. The object was the manufacture of art tile stoves and grates resembling the ornamental European
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History of Bergen county, New Jersey1900 · page 323Read the page →
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The village of Maywood is situated 00 the Susquehanna Railroad sixteen miles west of New York and two miles west of Hackensack, and is in close touch with both of these cities through numerous trains that pass to and from them daily at this place.
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Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Timeline
Maywood, 1872 to 1988
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
The Maywood post office opened in 1872, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records). Wikidata gives 1894.
How does Maywood rank for history?
Maywood is more historic than 65% of U.S. towns, #217 of 468 in New Jersey. 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.
What is on the National Register in Maywood?
4 listings: 3 buildings, among them the Romeyn-Oldis-Brinkerhoff House (listed 1983, the first), and 1 structure.
How old are the homes in Maywood?
26% of Maywood’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±5.2 points), against a typical 15% for a New Jersey town; the median home was built in 1951.
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 (10), Wikidata (2), the National Register of Historic Places (4), Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, 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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