Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: maps from 1907 on and the census since 1900.
The Hyde Park post office opened in 1893, the earliest record of the town by name. Wikidata gives 1898.
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 Hyde Park’s history is told.
Peaked at 758 in 1950; 509 people lived here in 2020.
13 censuses, 1900–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Hyde Park’s Wikipedia page.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Hyde Park. 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 Hyde Park.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Hyde Park yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Hyde Park is a borough in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 509 at the 2020 census.
Its first post office opened in 1893. Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 500 in 2010, 509 in 2020.
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.
Nobody well known was born in Hyde Park itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Hyde Park post office opened in 1893, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records). Wikidata gives 1898.
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.
