Founding year: the first Minetto post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).
History grade
What drives Minetto’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Minetto is more historic than 58% of U.S. towns. Its age holds the grade up; its National Register listings pull it down.
B
HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Minetto’s overall grade.
New York towns list more on the Register than most of the country (a typical New York town has 12.3 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Minetto’s 0.0 sits below most of its state (10% of New York towns have fewer) while its 0 listings outnumber those of 23% 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 (±4.4 points). The founding year is the first post office, not a stated founding date.
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 Minetto’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 Minetto. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1900Fulton 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 Minetto.
The story so far
Minetto, in brief
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Minetto yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Minetto is a town in Oswego County, New York, United States. The population was 1,659 at the 2010 census. It was formed in 1916 from the town of Oswego. The Town of Minetto is located south of the City of Oswego, which it borders. Minetto was once a company town of the now-closed Columbia Mills textile factory.
Its first post office opened in 1849. Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 1,659 in 2010, 1,643 in 2020.
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
From the old history books
What they wrote about Minetto in 1877
Passages that mention Minetto, cut from the printed page as they were published.
... History of Oswego County, New York1877 · page 392Read the page →
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the land within the present limits of Granby, the north part of lot 46, and the whole of 37. The two tracts kst named formed a triangular piece running down the river almost to Minetto. This triangle was subsequently cut off from Granby and annexed to the town of Oswego. The first town-meeting was held at the house of Cyril Wilson, on the first Tuesday of May, 1818, Barnet Mooney acting as moderator and Peter Schenck as clerk, when the following
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was organized December 9, 1872, from the Oswego Centre circuit, which was set aside from the general circuit, including Hannibal, Sterling, etc., in 1859, and meetings were held at Minetto and Oswego Centre. At the organization of this church in 1872, the following persons were incorporated as trustees, viz., James Wiltse, Vincent Sabin, Benjamin P. Dutcher, John A. Taylor, 0. Barstow, E. A.
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.
By decade
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Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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The Minetto post office opened in 1849, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
How does Minetto rank for history?
Minetto is more historic than 58% of U.S. towns. 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.
How old are the homes in Minetto?
21% of Minetto’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±4.4 points), against a typical 27% for a New York town; the median home was built in 1967.
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 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.
