Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: 4 old photos and papers, maps from 1915 on, and the census since 1850.
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 Clinton’s history is told.
Peaked at 2,206 in 1870; 652 people lived here in 2020.
18 censuses, 1850–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Clinton’s Wikipedia page.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Clinton. 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 Clinton.
From Wikipedia’s history of Clinton.
The area was settled before 1820, near the community of Frontier. The town was set apart from the town of Ellenburg in 1845.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Clinton, cut from the printed page as they were published.
This town lies on Lake Champlain, in the northeast section of Clinton County, and is bounded on the north by the town of Champlain, in the same county, on the south by the town of Beekmantown, also in Clinton County, on the east by Lake Champlain, and on the west by the town of Altona, Clinton County. It comprehends an area of 52 square miles, and the population, as given in the census of 1875, is 3068. A United States lighthouse stands on
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
The parish includes stations at Ellenburgh, Forest (in Altona), and at Clinton Mills. At the former point is a neat house of worship belonging to the denomination. The number of families in the parish is estimated at 300 at Clinton, 400 at Ellenburgh, and 12 at Forest. At Churubusco a fine brick parsonage was erected in 1878, and a barn in 1879. The cemetery belonging to the denomination at Churubusco was laid out soon after the organization
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.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
In the archiveClinton, N.Y
In the archiveHamilton College
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey2 decades in the archive, from the 1880s to the 1910s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
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 Clinton’s page.
Retake this view · +15Another post office, Clinton Mills, 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.
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 Wikimedia Commons (10), the Library of Congress (4), 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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