Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: 2 old photos and papers, maps from 1909 on, and the census since 1880.
Quaker City dates its founding to 1850 (Wikidata). The census first counted it in 1880.
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 Quaker City’s history is told.
From Wikipedia’s history of Quaker City.
The first settlement at Quaker City was made ca. 1850, but growth remained static until a store opened at the site in 1870. A post office called Quaker City has been in operation until 1872.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Peaked at 878 in 1900; 379 people lived here in 2020.
15 censuses, 1880–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Quaker City’s Wikipedia page.
Passages that mention Quaker City, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Spencer's Station was platted in 1892, as a railroad station. Being near Quaker City, it has never grown to much extent. Of Salesville, it may be stated that the settlement at that place was begun
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
Cambridge has the benefits of a first-rate hospital, a private institution where surgical operations, especially, are performed with great skill. When Dr. Isaac W. Keenan located at Quaker City in 1899, he established a hospital at that point, but in 1905 he took a special course in surgery at the Chicago Post-Graduate School and in the autumn of 1906 removed his hospital from Quaker City to Cambridge, locating on the corner of Ninth street and Comber avenue. He gave up ordinary medical practice and devotes his entire time to his private hospital, where he has won a great reputation and has
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.
Born hereNathan B. Scott is born here
Born hereMansel Carter is born here
In the archiveLeatherwood Dam
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyOne decade in the archive so far: the 1900s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Quaker City. 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 Quaker City.
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Quaker City’s page.
Retake this view · +15Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.
Quaker City’s post office has been open since 1872. Another post office, Leatherwood, 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 1850, according to Wikidata. Quaker City’s post office opened in 1836, and the census of 1880 counted 594 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 →
From Wikimedia Commons (5), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, 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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