Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Most of Warwick was built recently: 4% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1999. Its Register listings are the Seaba's Filling Station and the Warwick School. Below: maps from 1909 on and the census since 1970.
The Warwick post office opened in 1892, 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 Warwick’s history is told.
Peaked at 235 in 2000; 164 people lived here in 2020.
6 censuses, 1970–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Warwick’s Wikipedia page.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Warwick yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Warwick is a town in Lincoln County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 184 at the 2020 census, up from 148 in 2010.
Its first post office opened in 1892. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 148 to 164 (+11%).
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 Survey
BuiltSeaba's Filling Station is built
BuiltWarwick School is builtWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Warwick.
1909Luther sheet · 1:62,500U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Warwick.
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.
Nobody well known was born in Warwick itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Warwick had its own post office from 1892 to 1973.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
The Warwick post office opened in 1892, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
Two places: the Seaba's Filling Station (listed 1995) and the Warwick School (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 (2), 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.
