Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 73% of U.S. towns · #500 of 758 in New York. What drives it
3 places in town are on the National Register, among them a historic district with 6 buildings. Below: 2 old photos and papers, maps from 1910 on, and the census since 1820.
The Neversink post office opened in 1828, the earliest record of the town by name. Wikidata gives 1953. Six smaller post offices, Low's Corner (1850), Eureka (1869) and Willowemoc (1871), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
More historic than 73% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Neversink is more historic than 73% of U.S. towns, #500 of 758 in New York. Its age holds the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls it down.
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 Neversink’s 23.7 sits near the middle of its state (59% of New York towns have fewer) while its 8 historic buildings outnumber those of 74% 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.
Neversink’s post office has been open since 1828. Six 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).
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Neversink’s history is told.
Lost half of its people between 1860 and 1930, then more than doubled.
21 censuses, 1820–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Neversink’s Wikipedia page.
From Wikipedia’s history of Neversink.
The town was formed in 1798 from the Town of Rochester in Ulster County, New York before Sullivan County was formed, on the site of the Neversink Reservoir. The Town of Rockland was created from part of Neversink in 1809, and part of Neversink was used to make the newer Town of Fallsburg in 1826.
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.
BuiltC. Burton Hotel is built
In the archiveCounty atlas of Sullivan, New York
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
In the archiveRiver View House2 decades in the archive, from the 1870s to the 1910s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
2020Water and the Valleys display
2020TimeandtheValleysMuseumFrontEntrance
2012Sullivan 19 at Claryville
2012NY 55 with 42 shield
2008Untitled photo
2007New York State Route 42 091606 063
2007Confluence of east and west branches of Neversink Riv…
2006New York State Route 42 091606 071
2006NY 42 old shield
200655-42 multiplex signEvery edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Neversink. 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 Neversink.
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 Neversink’s page.
Retake this view · +15The 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.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Neversink post office opened in 1828, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records). Wikidata gives 1953.
Neversink is more historic than 73% of U.S. towns, #500 of 758 in New York. 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.
Three places: the Grahamsville Historic District (listed 1979), the C. Burton Hotel (2005) and the Greenfield Preparative Meeting House (2010).
11% of Neversink’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±4.2 points), against a typical 27% for a New York town; the median home was built in 1978.
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 (11), the Library of Congress (1), the National Register of Historic Places (3), 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.
