Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 78% of U.S. towns · #448 of 758 in New York. What drives it
4 places in town are on the National Register. Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1900 on, and the census since 1840.
More historic than 78% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Schroeppel is more historic than 78% of U.S. towns, #448 of 758 in New York. All 2 inputs are above most U.S. towns; its share of homes from before 1940 ranks highest and its National Register listings lowest.
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 Schroeppel’s 5.0 sits below most of its state (35% of New York towns have fewer) while its 4 listings outnumber those of 68% of U.S. towns.
Founding year: our sources. 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.
Two 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 Schroeppel’s history is told.
Lost a third of its people between 1860 and 1920, then grew 3-fold.
18 censuses, 1840–2010.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Schroeppel’s Wikipedia page.
From Wikipedia’s history of Schroeppel.
The town of Schroeppel was formed in 1832 from the town of Volney.
The Schroeppel House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Schroeppel, cut from the printed page as they were published.
A RETROSPECTION of little more than three-quarters of a century carries us back to the time of the first settlement of what now constitutes the town of Schroeppel. Seventyseven years, with their momentous events and chanj;ing vicissitudes, have passed into the silent night of eternity since the first white settler made his permanent location within the borders of the town. Consequently, our labors in the preparation of a brief historical sketch of Schroeppel
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
Not strictly an Oswego County institution, yet so large a portion of it.s territory and so many of its members being of this county, it finds properly a place among the public societies of the town of Schroeppel. It was organized February 6, 1873. At the first election E. N. Carrier was elected president of the .society, Joseph Somers, of Clay, and David Sutfin, of Lysander, I vice-presidents ; Henry A. Brainard, secretary ; William
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.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
In the archiveSchroeppel (Township)
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyOne decade in the archive so far: the 1860s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Schroeppel. 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 Schroeppel.
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 Schroeppel’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.
Nobody well known was born in Schroeppel itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Schroeppel is more historic than 78% of U.S. towns, #448 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.
4 listings: 4 buildings, among them the Schroeppel House (listed 1982, the first).
28% of Schroeppel’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±5.1 points), against a typical 27% for a New York town; the median home was built in 1968.
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 (1), the National Register of Historic Places (4), Wikipedia, 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.
