Founding year: Wikidata. First post office: 1828.The full story ↓
History grade
What drives Troupsburg’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Troupsburg is more historic than 62% of U.S. towns. Its share of homes from before 1940 holds the grade up; its National Register listings pull it down.
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HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Troupsburg’s overall grade.
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 Troupsburg’s 0.0 sits below most of its state (10% of New York towns have fewer) while its 0 listings outnumber those of 23% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from C+ to A−. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±7.1 points). Two sources give 1805.
Founding year: Wikidata (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 →
What stands out about Troupsburg’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The town was formed (as "Troupsburgh") from the Towns of Canisteo and Addison on February 12, 1808.
The Honorable Colonel Robert Troup, Esq. served in the American Revolution in addition to being a federal judge and later land agent for the Pulteney Estate. The Pulteney Estate was a large tract of land stretching from Sodus Bay on Lake Ontario south to the Pennsylvania border. Its western border was the Genesee River and its eastern border was Seneca Lake. Troup took over as land agent for the Pulteney Estate after its first agent, Charles Williamson, fell out of favor with the estate owners due to large debts he incurred in an attempt to develop the land.
Additional territory was added to Troupsburg from Canisteo in 1818.
Passages that mention Troupsburg, cut from the printed page as they were published.
A history of Steuben County, New York, and its people1911 · page 193Read the page →
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Methodist Episcopal churches were founded in the town of Troupsburg in 1819 ; in the towns of Greenwood and Hartsville by Rev. Asa Orcutt in 1825 ; in the same year in the towns of Thurston and Tuscarora ; in the towns of Addison and Campbell, 1827 ; in the town of Fremont, 1828 ; in the town of Hornellsville, now citv of Hornell, 1830 ; in West Union, 1831 ; in the town of Caton, 1833, and in Bradford, 1834.
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A history of Steuben County, New York, and its people1911 · page 11Read the page →
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Marl and tuffa are found near Cold Springs, between Bath and Hammondsport; also near Arkport in the town of Hornellsville, in Troupsburg, in the valley of Canaseraga creek, in the town of Dansville on the summit between this creek and the Canisteo river, and along the Five Mile creek in the town of Prattsburg. In the Gulf— a high valley in Bath and Wheeleris a bed of clay of unusual depth and tenacity, in which occasional animal remains have been found that dissolved into a fine flour-
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Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Timeline
Troupsburg, 1805 to 1926
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
In 1805, according to Wikidata. Troupsburg’s post office opened in 1828, and the census of 1820 counted 650 people here.
How does Troupsburg rank for history?
Troupsburg is more historic than 62% 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.
How old are the homes in Troupsburg?
25% of Troupsburg’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±7.1 points), against a typical 27% for a New York town; the median home was built in 1985.
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 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), 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.
