Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Most of Greasy was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1984. Below: maps from 1898 on and the census since 2000.
The Greasy post office opened in 1920, 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 Greasy’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Greasy. 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 Greasy.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Greasy yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Greasy is a census-designated place (CDP) in Adair County, Oklahoma, United States. As of the 2020 census, Greasy had a population of 248.
Its first post office opened in 1920. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 372 to 248 (-33%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
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 SurveyWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Between 248 and 387 people in every census since 2000.
3 censuses, 2000–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Greasy’s Wikipedia page.
Nobody well known was born in Greasy itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Greasy had its own post office from 1920 to 1921.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Greasy post office opened in 1920, 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 U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
