Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: maps from 1903 on and the census since 1880.
The Green Camp post office opened in 1854, 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 Green Camp’s history is told.
Peaked at 537 in 1970; 310 people lived here in 2020.
15 censuses, 1880–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Green Camp’s Wikipedia page.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Green Camp. 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 Green Camp.
From Wikipedia’s history of Green Camp.
Green Camp was originally called Berwick, and under the latter name was laid out in 1838. The present name is derived from Green Camp Township.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Green Camp, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Present, Charles Merriman, John Shunk and George Beckley. Whereupon, on petition of John Britt and others, it is ordered that the half-mile strip taken off the west end of Township 6, Range 15, in this county, and attached to the township of Green Camp in said county, also the whole of Township 6, Range 14, in this county be, and the same is hereby detached from said township of Green Camp, and attached to the township of Pleasant, in this county. And it is further ordered that the strip of one mile heretofore taken off of the south end of Township 5, Range 14, in this county, and attached to the township of Green Camp aforesaid, be and the same is hereby detached
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
Berwick continued as a village up to 1875, when it was incorporated and given the name of Green Camp. The post office also continued as “ Berwick " to this time, when, on account of there being another post office oy the same name, in Seneca County, this State, which interfered with the mails, the post office at this place was designated as * Green Camp." The office was established in 1854, through the instrumentality of John H. Porter and F. W. Yoe, the latter of whom was appointed Postmaster, and served until 1866. His successors, in order, have been William Strod, two years; John J. Davis, J.
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 SurveyNobody well known was born in Green Camp itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
The Green Camp post office opened in 1854, 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 (3), 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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