Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: the census since 1870.
Catawba dates its founding to 1838 (Wikidata and Wikipedia’s history agree). The census first counted it in 1870.
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 Catawba’s history is told.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Born hereJimmy Williams is born hereFrom Wikipedia’s history of Catawba.
Catawba was laid out in 1838. The town was named for the Catawba people. A post office called Catawba has been in operation since 1839.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Catawba, cut from the printed page as they were published.
while some persons criticise the department, they would do the same thing themselves. When they must pay for service, it stimulates other communities to take care of themselves. Chief Hunter had just received a check for $150 in payment for service rendered in Catawba, the note accompanying it saying: "We, the Council of the Village of Catawba, wish to express our thanks to the Springfield Fire Department for aid in subduing the fire January 13, 1922, which threatened our village," and the check was transferred to the city manager to be used in defraying
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ship is the Delaware branch of the Big Four. This goes across a small portion of the northwest corner, the station closeto Catawba being known by that name. It has only one village, thai of Catawba (see villages), being singularly different in this respect from all the other townships of the county, and the residents have
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The village of Catawba is located in the northwestern part of Pleasant Township, on the road leading from Vienna to Mechanicsburg, about fourteen miles from Springfield. It was regularly laid out by Cass and Marsh upon the lands owned by George Dawson, in 1838. Prior to this time there was considerable of a settle-
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Catawba, the only village of the township, contains the grocery and dry goods store of Thomas Wingate, Martin Hunter and Burgess, N. S. Conway, Joseph Pearson, the boot and shoe store of Benjamin Golden, and the drug store of William Jacobs.
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.
Between 231 and 355 people in every census since 1870.
16 censuses, 1870–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Catawba’s Wikipedia page.
Catawba’s post office has been open since 1839. Another post office, Buck Creek, 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).
In 1838, according to Wikidata and Wikipedia’s history of the town. Catawba’s post office opened in 1832, and the census of 1870 counted 318 people here.
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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