Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: maps from 1984 on and the census since 1830.
The Wethersfield post office opened in 1823, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, Wethersfield Springs (1831) and Hermitage (1837), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
Wethersfield was named after settlers from their home, Wethersfield, Connecticut.
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 Wethersfield’s history is told.
Wethersfield had its own post office from 1823 to 1903. 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).
Peaked at 1,728 in 1840; 883 people lived here in 2010.
19 censuses, 1830–2010.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Wethersfield’s Wikipedia page.
From Wikipedia’s history of Wethersfield.
The Town of Wethersfield was established in 1823 from part of the Town of Orangeville. It was named after settlers from their home, Wethersfield, Connecticut.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Wethersfield, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Schools and Districts of Old or First Parish of Wethersfield.— At a Town Meeting in Wethersfield, March 2d, 1723-4, it was voted that the “northern inhabitants of the First Society in said Town” might erect a small school house, “somewhere near the northwest end of Standishes Lane, so as not to prejudice the highway thereby.” Thus it is seen that the Town, even in the First, or Old Society, directed in the matter of the schools. As School Districts were unknown, the new school house should be considered as a branch of the school house of
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
the lines as they now exist, except that the north district extended up to the north line of Stepney parish, and the north line of the west district was on the old parish line at that end of the parish. That part of the north district now in the town of Wethersfield, except the first house north of the bridge, was at a later day set off to Harris Hill district of Wethersfield, and about 1860 the district line was brought to the town line and the north line of the west district was extended in 1850 north to coincide with the line between the towns. At this period
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.
Born hereDon Bosseler is born here
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Wethersfield.
1984Buffalo sheet · 1:100,000U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Wethersfield.
Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Wethersfield post office opened in 1823, 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 →
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.