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More historic than 58% of U.S. towns. What drives it
1 place in town is on the National Register. Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1897 on, and the census since 1920.
Plandome dates its founding to 1910 (Wikipedia’s history). The census first counted it in 1920.
More historic than 58% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Plandome is more historic than 58% of U.S. towns. Its share of homes from before 1940 holds the grade up; its age 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 Plandome’s 13.2 sits near the middle of its state (50% of New York towns have fewer) while its 2 historic buildings outnumber those of 60% of U.S. towns.
Founding year: Wikipedia (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.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Plandome’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Plandome. 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 Plandome.
From Wikipedia’s history of Plandome.
The location of what is now the Village of Plandome was originally inhabited by Matinecock Native Americans. These Native American inhabitants called the area Sint Sink, meaning "place of small stones."
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 Survey
In the archiveAnthony Albanese, residence on Grist Mill Rd., Plandome Mills, Plandome, Long Island. LOC…One decade in the archive so far: the 1960s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
2022Plandome Road, Plandome, Long Island, New York May 25…
2022Plandome Field and Marine Club, Plandome, Long Island…
2021Reconstructionist Synagogue of the North Shore May 10…
2021Plandome WWII Memorial
2021Plandome Country Club, Plandome, Long Island, New Yor…
2021Parkwoods Road, Flower Hill & Plandome, Long Island, …
2021Oakwood Lane, Plandome, Long Island, New York Novembe…
2011Plandome FD old red car jeh
2011Plandome FD long red line jeh
2011Almeron & Olive Smith House jehNo 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 Plandome’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.
Between 319 and 1,593 people in every census since 1920.
11 censuses, 1920–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Plandome’s Wikipedia page.
Nobody well known was born in Plandome itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
In 1910, according to Wikipedia’s history of the town. the census of 1920 counted 319 people here.
Plandome 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.
58% of Plandome’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±8.6 points), against a typical 27% for a New York town; the median home was built in 1938.
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), Wikidata (1), 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.
