Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: maps from 1959 on and the census since 1880.
The Burgoon post office opened in 1873, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, Winters Station (1861) and Burgamot (1873), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
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 Burgoon’s history is told.
From Wikipedia’s history of Burgoon.
A post office called Burgoon has been in operation since 1873. The village is named after Isadore H. Burgoon, a railroad official. An exhibit on I.H. Burgoon can be found at the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center in Fremont.
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Peaked at 267 in 1940; 183 people lived here in 2020.
12 censuses, 1880–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Burgoon’s Wikipedia page.
Passages that mention Burgoon, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Burgoon was platted where these roads cross and superseded the former village. The village and post-office was named Burgoon in compliment to Isadore H. Burgoon, then superintendent of what is now The Lake Erie & Western Railroad. Burgoon is a pleasant village with railroad facilities furnished by two lines here crossing each other. It has a voting
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by Jacob Winters on the Muscallonge, and the fourth by Joshua Smith on that stream. All of these have passed away. ‘The first gristmill was erected at Burgoon in 1880. RELIGIOUS SOCIETIES, VILLAGES, ETC. Among the earlier religious services in the township was preaching at Gilbreath Stewart’s house in 1829, where the first sermon is said
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There never was a grist-mill in the township until 1880, when the steam-mill at Burgoon was built. WINTER STATION. The first village was laid out by Jacob Winter and was located on the line of railroad then called the Lima & Fremont, now the Lake Erie & Western. For the
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It is within the possibility of things for Burgoon to become a town of some importance. Surrounded with an agricultural territory inferior to none, and with good railroad facilities there is no reason why it should not prosper.
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.
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyEvery edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Burgoon. 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 Burgoon.
Nobody well known was born in Burgoon itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Burgoon’s post office has been open since 1873. 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).
The Burgoon post office opened in 1873, 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 Wikimedia Commons (6), Wikipedia, 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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