Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1895 on, and the census since 1850.
Worth dates its founding to 1802 (Wikipedia’s history). The census first counted it in 1850.
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 Worth’s history is told.
Worth had its own post office from 1904 to 1916. Four 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).
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Worth. 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 Worth.
From Wikipedia’s history of Worth.
The town was first settled circa 1802. Difficulties in successful settlement and the War of 1812 led to a partial abandonment of the town.
The town was created by separation from the town of Lorraine in 1848. An earlier attempt to form this town was disrupted by the War of 1812.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Worth, cut from the printed page as they were published.
.S.\M Lew is president of the Casey-Svvasey Cigar Company of Fort Worth. This is a business which has been intimatelv associated with the commercial history of Fort Worth for a long period of years. Sam Levy first came to Fort Worth in 1874 when it was without a single railroad, and is one of the pioneer business men of northwestern Texas.
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
on the basis of efficiency, and when he came to Texas it was as general passenger agent and freight agent at Fort \\'orth for the Fort Worth & Rio Grande Railroad. Later, when this railroad was incorporated in the Frisco system, he became vice president and general superintendent of the line. Mr. Comer resigned in 1904 and for several years afterward
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 archiveWorth. (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.
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 Worth’s page.
Retake this view · +15Peaked at 2,895 in 1900; 231 people lived here in 2010.
17 censuses, 1850–2010.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Worth’s Wikipedia page.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
In 1802, according to Wikipedia’s history of the town. Worth’s post office opened in 1849, and the census of 1850 counted 326 people here.
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 Wikimedia Commons (1), 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.
