Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 83% of U.S. towns · #96 of 468 in New Jersey. What drives it
1 place in town is on the National Register, among them a historic district with 125 buildings. Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1888 on, and the census since 1860.
The Millburn Township post office opened in 1854, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, Baltusrol (1893) and Baltusrol (1907), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
More historic than 83% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Millburn Township is more historic than 83% of U.S. towns, #96 of 468 in New Jersey. Its share of homes from before 1940 holds the grade up; its age pulls it down.
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 Millburn Township’s 56.4 sits above most of its state (82% of New Jersey towns have fewer) while its 125 historic buildings outnumber those of 91% of U.S. towns.
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 →
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
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.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Millburn Township’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Millburn Township. 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 Millburn Township.
From Wikipedia’s history of Millburn Township.
Millburn was an agricultural settlement before it became a Victorian residential community. It was part of the Newark settlements in New Jersey in the 19th century made from Charles II from James, his brother, in the 17th century. Springfield Township, founded in 1783, included Millburn.
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.
In the archiveMillburn Budget masthead
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
Born hereJames C. Fletcher is born hereOne decade in the archive so far: the 1880s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
20212021-09-20 15 01 30 Asiatic dayflower flower along Es…
20212021-09-20 15 01 13 Asiatic dayflower blooming along …
2017Downtown
2015Pumpkin Unloading
2014Coins and bills under a foot of water in water tank i…
2013The Next Keith Moon
2010Taylor Park
2010Southmountain dogpark 1
2010South Mountain View
2010Millburn New Jersey 004
2010Millburn NJ View
2010Millburn MS jeh
2010Milburn NJ clock
2010Jakegyllenhaal
2010Glenwood School Millburn jeh
2009Wyoming Presbyterian Church
2009Smile have a nice day sign
2009Millburn Middle Sch jeh
2009Milburn Short Hills First Aid Vol jeh
2009Milburn Free Public Libr jeh
2005Millburn twp nj 013
2005Millburn NJ winter panorama from SM Reservation
2005Millburn NJ winter from SM ReservationNo 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 Millburn Township’s page.
Retake this view · +15Grew from 1,630 people in 1860 to 21,710 in 2020, more than tenfold.
17 censuses, 1860–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Millburn Township’s Wikipedia page.
Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.
Two other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.
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.
The Millburn Township post office opened in 1854, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
Millburn Township is more historic than 83% of U.S. towns, #96 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.
One place: the Short Hills Park Historic District (listed 1980).
33% of Millburn Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±3.0 points), against a typical 15% for a New Jersey town; the median home was built in 1954.
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 (24), the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, 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) 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.
