Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Church of St. John the Evangelist · Photo: Doug Kerr from Albany, New York, United States · CC BY-SA 2.0More historic than 82% of U.S. towns · #395 of 758 in New York. What drives it
Its Register listings are the Church of St. John the Evangelist and the Smith Octagon House. Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1933 on, and the census since 1840.
The Stockport post office opened in 1837, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, Columbiaville (1823) and Rossman (1899), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
More historic than 82% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Stockport is more historic than 82% of U.S. towns, #395 of 758 in New York. All 3 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 Stockport’s 7.6 sits near the middle of its state (42% of New York towns have fewer) while its 2 listings outnumber those of 60% 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.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Stockport’s history is told.
Stockport had its own post office from 1837 to 1983. 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).
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
In the archiveStuyvesant Landing (Village); Stockport (Township)
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyFrom Wikipedia’s history of Stockport.
The region was settled around 1657 and the Staats House dates from this early period.
Stockport was created in 1833 from parts of the towns of Ghent and Stuyvesant and the city of Hudson. The Church of St. John the Evangelist was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Stockport, cut from the printed page as they were published.
the fo: "Beginning on the bank of the Hudson river, at the southwest corner of the town of Stooliport, and running from thence along the lino of the said town of Stockport, south sixty-si.\ degrees, east one hundred and twenty chains and si.\teen links to the middle of the Claverack creek, at a hickory-tree standing on the cast bank of said creek ; thence up along the middle of said creek, as it winds and turns, to the line of the town of Livingston ; thence north sixty-eight
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t That territory was diminished by the formation of the town of Stockport, in 183,'), and the city was reduced to its present limits by the erection of the town of Orecnport, in 1837. limits mentioned were by the act " ordained, constituted, and declared to be, from Time to Time and forever Iiereafter, one Body corporate and politic, in Fact and in Name, by the Name of the Mayor, Recorder, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the City of Hudson."
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.
One decade in the archive so far: the 1870s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Stockport. 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 Stockport.
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 Stockport’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 1,438 and 3,085 people in every census since 1840.
19 censuses, 1840–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Stockport’s Wikipedia page.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Stockport post office opened in 1837, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
Stockport is more historic than 82% of U.S. towns, #395 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.
Two places: the Church of St. John the Evangelist (listed 1972) and the Smith Octagon House (2025).
29% of Stockport’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±8.1 points), against a typical 27% for a New York town; the median home was built in 1973.
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 (6), the National Register of Historic Places (2), 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.
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