Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: maps from 1909 on and old-book passages.
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 Nixon’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Nixon. 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 Nixon.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Nixon yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Nixon is a census-designated place (CDP) in Penn Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,373 at the 2010 census.
Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 1,373 in 2010, 1,393 in 2020.
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Nixon, cut from the printed page as they were published.
tion in the last decade of the nineteenth century. The building was located on the site of the Methodist Episcopal parsonage on North McKean Street, and the proprietor of the place for years was Simeon Nixon, father of Simeon Nixon, proprietor of the present Nixon Hotel. The name “tavern” is no longer applied to public houses, and such places are now known only as hotels. In their equipment and style, the modern hotel is far superior to the tavern
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.
Weddings 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 Nixon itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
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 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.
