Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: maps from 1913 on and the census since 1900.
The McGuffey post office opened in 1883, 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 McGuffey’s history is told.
Peaked at 710 in 1930; 466 people lived here in 2020.
13 censuses, 1900–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on McGuffey’s Wikipedia page.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of McGuffey. 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 McGuffey.
From Wikipedia’s history of McGuffey.
McGuffey was laid out in 1890, and named for John McGuffey. John McGuffey had donated land for a railroad depot in exchange for the naming rights. A post office called McGuffey has been in operation since 1883. The village was incorporated in 1896.
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Passages that mention McGuffey, cut from the printed page as they were published.
of his native county, where he is held in unequivocal confidence and esteem and where he is known as a loyal, progressive and substantial citizen. He is the owner of the large and well equipped grain elevator at Alger and in the village of McGuffey, this county, he operates an elevator of still greater capacity. He has built up a substantial and extensive business as a buyer and shipper of grain and also makes a specialty of the buying and shipping of onions, for which product this section of the state has gained marked reputation. He is a business
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of Kenton, Hepburn is the only station, though for a time the village known as Wheeler’s Station and later, as Pfeiffer, was a stopping place for local trains, but west of Kenton are the important marsh towns of Foraker, Alger and McGuffey, where during the onion season business with the railroad company is exceedingly brisk. Some years later the scheme for connecting Toledo, which was rapidly becoming one of the first cities of the state, with Columbus, was worked out, anti a company formed to build a road through Bowling
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Charles A. Guider.— In the death of Charles A. Guider, at his home in the village of McGuffey, on the 29th of November, 1902, there passed away one of the honored and sterling citizens of Hardin county, which had represented bis borne and been the scene of his endeavors during the major portion of his long and useful life. lie was a man of great mechanical genius and ability, and during nearly his entire busi- Vol. 11—13
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 McGuffey itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
The McGuffey post office opened in 1883, 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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