Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 61% of U.S. towns · #597 of 758 in New York. What drives it
Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1923 on, and the census since 1830.
The Yorkshire post office opened in 1826, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, Delavan (1838) and Yorkshire Centre (1854), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
More historic than 61% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Yorkshire is more historic than 61% of U.S. towns, #597 of 758 in New York. Its share of homes from before 1940 holds the grade up; its National Register listings pull it down.
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 Yorkshire’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.
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 Yorkshire’s history is told.
Yorkshire’s post office has been open since 1826. 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.
Born hereIrving Stringham is born here
In the archivePlan-of-Yorkshire-Broome-County-1855-Gifford-Wenig-g3803b-la000476
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyFrom Wikipedia’s history of Yorkshire.
The area that would become the town was first settled circa 1810. The town of Yorkshire was formed in 1820 from the "town of Ischua" (now Franklinville). In 1827, the south part of the town was taken to form the town of Machias.
Western historian and notable U.S. Army engineer Hiram M. Chittenden was born in Yorkshire on October 25, 1858.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Yorkshire, cut from the printed page as they were published.
in 1895 ; two more bells were given by Miss Eliza Leckie, of Darrington, and dedicated by Dr. Maclagan, Archbishop of York, in the following year. Later the church was lighted by acetylene gas, and in 1914 the Yorkshire Parish Register Society printed its registers. All these things are, of course, outward and material signs of a revival ; the deeper significance of that may be best judged by the parishioners themselves, who for many years have seen the services of
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historical deeds centre than round almost any other castle in England. When war broke out between Charles I and the Parliament, Pontefract Castle was garrisoned for the King by the Royalist gentlemen of Yorkshire under Sir Richard Lowther of Swillington. Between 1644 and 1649 it withstood three sieges — there were really four, if a small affair in 1645 is taken into account. Great things happened.
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On the northern or opposite side of the river to Marston, is the ancient and picturesque village of Eirk Hammerton, which is especially notable for possessing one of the oldest and quaintest parish churches to be seen anywhere in Yorkshire. It is mentioned in Domesday in this wise : III. Manobs. In Altera Hanbretone (Kirk Ilammerton) Turchil, Game], and Heltor, had six caracatea of land and a half to be taxed. There is land to six ploughB. John, a vasaal of Osbem's, has there two ploughs and five villanss with
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Introduction xvii making of cloth was carried on in Yorkshire in private houses, the several parts of the process being conducted by different members of the family according to their age and sex. The clothiers of Yorkshire were considered among the most industrious and frugal people of the kingdom. They were of necessity capitalists. They employed weavers, fullers, etc., and furnished them with material. In part they were accounted among the millionaires of England. Edward Jewett seems to have been a man of property, and to have
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 1850s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Yorkshire. 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 Yorkshire.
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 Yorkshire’s page.
Retake this view · +15Between 823 and 4,210 people in every census since 1830.
20 censuses, 1830–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Yorkshire’s Wikipedia page.
Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Yorkshire post office opened in 1826, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
Yorkshire is more historic than 61% of U.S. towns, #597 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.
24% of Yorkshire’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±7.7 points), against a typical 27% for a New York town; the median home was built in 1974.
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 (5), 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.
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