Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: maps from 1909 on and the census since 1870.
The Sarahsville post office opened in 1840, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Saysville (1828), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
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 Sarahsville’s history is told.
Peaked at 306 in 1890; 147 people lived here in 2020.
16 censuses, 1870–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Sarahsville’s Wikipedia page.
From Wikipedia’s history of Sarahsville.
A post office called Sarahsville has been in operation since 1840. The village was named after Sarah Devold, the wife of an early settler.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Sarahsville, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Two years after Sarahsville was founded the town of Sharon was surveyed and platted under the direction of Robert Rutherford and Edward Parrish who owned the land upon which the village was located. A Presbyterian church had been erected there in 1823 and the establishment of a post office contributed still further toward making a center of population. The original plat consisted of fourteen lots, not much of a city, but there was a time when Sharon was
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aggressive of any of the religions denominations. The first Methodist church in Summerfield was erected in 1830, though a class had been in existence there ever since the vear 1819, Nathaniel Capell being the first leader. A Methodist church was established at Sarahsville abont the time the town was laid out and is therefore one of the oldest in the county. Thomas Barry and William Shaw were among the leaders at this point. The church at Mount Ephraim was organized in 1830, with Joseph Graham as class leader, and in 1844 the first building
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.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Sarahsville. 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 Sarahsville.
Nobody well known was born in Sarahsville itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Sarahsville’s post office has been open since 1840. Another post office, Saysville, 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).
The Sarahsville post office opened in 1840, 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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