Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: maps from 1915 on and the census since 1930.
North Hornell first appears in the census in 1930.
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 North Hornell’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of North Hornell. 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 North Hornell.
From Wikipedia’s history of North Hornell.
In 2004, the North Hornell village council started studies on whether a possible merger with the city of Hornell or dissolving the village wiykd reduce annual costs. The citizens of the village voted not to merge with the city of Hornell.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention North Hornell, cut from the printed page as they were published.
sideration of one hundred and eleven pounds in money and a silk dress for the grantor's wife, conveyed this tract of one thousand and six hundred acres to George Hornell. It now embraces the suburb of North Hornell ; the freight and passenger depot and station, shop, engine house and yards of the Pittsburg, Shawmut & Northern Railroad Company; Seneca park and Hornell fairgrounds; Lincoln schoolhouse and the armory of Company K, Third Regiment, New York National Guards; Westminster Pres-
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.
Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Between 452 and 919 people in every census since 1930.
10 censuses, 1930–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on North Hornell’s Wikipedia page.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The North Hornell post office opened in 1930, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
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 →
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