Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1914 on, and the census since 1870.
The Stoutsville post office opened in 1855, 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 Stoutsville’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Stoutsville. 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 Stoutsville.
From Wikipedia’s history of Stoutsville.
Benjamin Stout laid out Stoutsville in 1854, and named it for himself. A post office has been in operation at Stoutsville since 1855.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Stoutsville, cut from the printed page as they were published.
STOUTSVILLE Stoutsville is a village of about 300 population, situated west of the center of the township. It was laid out in 1854 by Benjamin Stout.
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
Clytus E. Valentine attended school in Clear Creek Township and at Stoutsville. He began educational work in 1900 and taught for two years in his native township and is teaching in his ninth term in the Stoutsville High School. He attends county institutes and keeps fully abreast with the times in educational matters and
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 SurveyNo 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 Stoutsville’s page.
Retake this view · +15Between 160 and 581 people in every census since 1870.
9 censuses, 1870–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Stoutsville’s Wikipedia page.
The Stoutsville post office opened in 1855, 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), the Library of Congress (1), 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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