Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Its Register listing is the Barr House. Below: maps from 1909 on and the census since 1850.
Amanda dates its founding to 1830 (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 Amanda’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Amanda. 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 Amanda.
From Wikipedia’s history of Amanda.
Amanda was founded around 1830, but development would not begin in earnest until 1850 when the railroad was extended to that point. A post office has been in operation at Amanda since 1832.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Amanda, cut from the printed page as they were published.
AMANDA Amanda was named by William Hamilton, the first surveyor of Fairfield County. Its beginning dates back to about 1830, when Samuel Kester is recorded as a proprietor of the "Village of Amanda," which was nothing more than a couple of buildings at the crossing of Main and Maple
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the north by Bloom Township, on the east In 1800 Andrew Barr and five sons came by Hocking, on the south by Clear Creek, from Chester County, Penn., and settled and on the west by Pickaway County. The two miles west of Amanda. Their descendland is rolling. Clear Creek traverses the ants still live in the township, township from north to south. Walnut Only one railroad crosses Amanda town- Creek and Turkey Run flow west and drain ship and that crosses the southeast corner the western part of the township. with the only station in Amanda.
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 hereThomas Sterling is born here
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyThe 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 181 and 788 people in every census since 1850.
15 censuses, 1850–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Amanda’s Wikipedia page.
In 1830, according to Wikipedia’s history of the town. Amanda’s post office opened in 1832, and the census of 1850 counted 181 people here.
One place: the Barr House (listed 1980).
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 →
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