Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: maps from 1909 on and the census since 1880.
The Dupont post office opened in 1866, 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 Dupont’s history is told.
From Wikipedia’s history of Dupont.
Dupont was platted in 1877 when the Toledo, Delphos, and Indianapolis Railway was extended to that point. The village was named for Samuel Francis Du Pont, a United States Navy admiral in the Mexican War. Dupont was incorporated as a village in 1888.
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Peaked at 531 in 1890; 212 people lived here in 2020.
15 censuses, 1880–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Dupont’s Wikipedia page.
Passages that mention Dupont, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Mr. Dimock was the first postmaster of Dupont office (1866) ; he laid out and surveyed.the village of Dupont, was its first Mayor, acting in that capacity for six years. His faithful wife passed away March 24, 1895, and he now resides at his old home with two of his daughters.
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James L. Fawcett, the father of Clinton W., was reared on the farm in Sugar Creek township and taught school for a short time after reaching his maturity. For a number of years he was engaged in the manufacture of drain tile at Dupont, Ohio, and after retiring from this business was appointed postmaster at Dupont in 1893, and served during Cleveland's second administration. He was a soldier in the Civil War, a member of Company E, One Hundred and Ninety-seventh Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. After leaving the postofifice he held several offices in Perry town-
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1853, died August 29, 1854; Ida, October 14, 1855; Marion, September 80, 1858, died January 15, 1867; Lewis, February 21, 1861; Elias, May 27, 1864; Oliver, February 19, 1867, dead; Ada, April 29, 1868. His father served in the war of 1812. Dupont was all a wilderness when he came to the county, and he has served as trustee of the township four years, and as constable one term. Occupation, farming. Address, Dupont.
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 Dupont. 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 Dupont.
Nobody well known was born in Dupont itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Dupont had its own post office from 1866 to 1963.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
The Dupont post office opened in 1866, 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 (7), 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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