Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Most of Central Pacolet was built recently: 4% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1967. Below: maps from 1986 on and the census since 1960.
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 Central Pacolet’s history is told.
Peaked at 483 in 1970; 209 people lived here in 2020.
7 censuses, 1960–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Central Pacolet’s Wikipedia page.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Central Pacolet yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Central Pacolet is a town in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, United States, along the Pacolet River. As of the 2020 census, Central Pacolet had a population of 209.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 216 to 209 (-3%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Weddings 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 Central Pacolet.
1986Spartanburg sheet · 1:100,000U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Central Pacolet.
Nobody well known was born in Central Pacolet itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
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 U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
