Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Its Register listing is the St. Bernard Catholic Church and Rectory. Below: maps from 1908 on and the census since 1910.
The Burkettsville post office opened in 1873, the earliest record of the town by name.
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 Burkettsville’s history is told.
From Wikipedia’s history of Burkettsville.
Burkettsville had its start when the railroad was extended to that point. The town site was platted in 1876. A post office was established at Burkettsville in 1881, and was still in operation in 2026.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Burkettsville, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Frank Bernard Romer, Jr., laid out the town of Burkettsville, 1871. He also presented to Rev. John Van den Broek, C. PP. S., two acres of land and was one of a committee of eight good Catholics who organized St. Bernard’s Church there. He erected his own commodious residence at St. Henry in 1884-85, a large brick structure of 12 rooms, where he now lives practically retired, although it is doubtful if anyone with so active a mind and so many important interests still concerning him will ever entirely lay aside business affairs.
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dences and barns are found on nearly all the farms. Thrift is indicated in the neatness of the home surroundings. Good gravel roads are on every hand. The township is crossed by the Cincinnati Northern Railroad, with stations at St. Henry and Burkettsville, thus affording ample shipping facilities. The free rural delivery of mail has been well established in this township and communication' by telephone is general throughout the community.
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 Burkettsville. 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 Burkettsville.
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.
Between 155 and 295 people in every census since 1910.
12 censuses, 1910–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Burkettsville’s Wikipedia page.
Nobody well known was born in Burkettsville itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
The Burkettsville post office opened in 1873, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
One place: the St. Bernard Catholic Church and Rectory (listed 1979).
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), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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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