Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: maps from 1943 on and the census since 1900.
Glen Park dates its founding to 1893 (Wikipedia’s history). The census first counted it in 1900.
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 Glen Park’s history is told.
Peaked at 661 in 1920; 452 people lived here in 2020.
13 censuses, 1900–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Glen Park’s Wikipedia page.
From Wikipedia’s history of Glen Park.
The village was built up around the Remington Paper Company and incorporated in 1893.
The village was also the site of an amusement and picnic grounds operated by a local streetcar company. Extensive caves and endangered bat hibernaculum in the vicinity.
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.
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Glen Park. 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 Glen Park.
Nobody well known was born in Glen Park itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
In 1893, according to Wikipedia’s history of the town. Glen Park’s post office opened in 1896, and the census of 1900 counted 494 people here.
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 Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps and U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
