Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Its Register listing is the Pocasset Gymnasium. Below: maps from 1904 on and the census since 2000.
The Pocasset post office opened in 1902, 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 Pocasset’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Pocasset. 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 Pocasset.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Pocasset yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Pocasset is a town in Grady County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 183 at the 2020 census, a 17.3% increase from 2010.
Its first post office opened in 1902. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 156 to 183 (+17%).
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.
Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Between 156 and 192 people in every census since 2000.
3 censuses, 2000–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Pocasset’s Wikipedia page.
The Pocasset post office opened in 1902, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
One place: the Pocasset Gymnasium (listed 1996).
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 Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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.
