Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 79% of U.S. towns · #123 of 468 in New Jersey. What drives it
Below: 6 old photos and papers, maps from 1888 on, and the census since 1910.
Verona Township dates its founding to 1702 (Wikidata). The census first counted it in 1910.
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, Verona Township is more historic than 79% of U.S. towns, #123 of 468 in New Jersey. Its age holds the grade up; its National Register listings pull 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 Verona Township’s 0.0 sits below most of its state (12% of New Jersey towns have fewer) while its 0 listings outnumber those of 23% 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.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Verona 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 Verona Township.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
In the archiveVerona, New Jersey. Sewing stripes on an American flag at the Annin Flag Company
Born hereJay Mohr is born here
Born hereJon Okafor is born here
Born hereJulia Ashley is born hereFrom Wikipedia’s history of Verona Township.
Verona and several neighboring towns were all originally one consolidated area known as the Horseneck Tract.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
One decade in the archive so far: the 1940s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
1943Verona, New Jersey. Sewing stripes on an American fla…
1943Verona, New Jersey. Sewing the edge of an American fl…
1943Verona, New Jersey. Women trimming threads from a fla…
1943Verona, New Jersey. Sticking stars onto a flag at the…
1943Untitled photo, possibly related to: Verona, New Jers…
1943Verona, New Jersey. Italian-American woman, with two …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 Verona Township’s page.
Retake this view · +15Between 1,675 and 15,067 people in every census since 1910.
12 censuses, 1910–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Verona Township’s Wikipedia page.
Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.
Another post office, Verona, 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).
Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
In 1702, according to Wikidata. Verona Township’s post office opened in 1857, and the census of 1910 counted 1,675 people here.
Verona Township is more historic than 79% of U.S. towns, #123 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.
34% of Verona Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±4.4 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 the Library of Congress (6), 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.
