Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Its Register listing is the Frasier, Thomas T. and Wesley B. Houses. Its Register listing is the Frasier, Thomas T. and Wesley B. Houses. Below: maps from 1905 on and the census since 1900.
Brookside first appears in the census in 1900.
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 Brookside’s history is told.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Brookside yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Brookside is a village in eastern Belmont County, Ohio, United States. The population was 538 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Wheeling metropolitan area.
Its first post office opened in 1900. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 632 to 538 (-15%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Peaked at 975 in 1940; 538 people lived here in 2020.
13 censuses, 1900–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Brookside’s Wikipedia page.
Passages that mention Brookside, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Brookside district was taken into Bridgeport special school district and a large and commodious school building erected there.
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.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Brookside. 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 Brookside.
The 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.
Nobody well known was born in Brookside itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Brookside post office opened in 1900, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
One place: the Frasier, Thomas T. and Wesley B. Houses (listed 1982).
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 (3), the National Register of Historic Places (1), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), 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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