Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: Evanoco · CC BY-SA 4.0Most of Heath Springs was built recently: 8% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1974. Its Register listing is the Heath Springs Depot. Below: maps from 1968 on and the census since 1900.
Heath Springs dates its founding to 1890 (Wikidata and Wikipedia’s history agree). The census first counted it in 1900.
Heath Springs was named for the firm Heath & Springs.
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 Heath Springs’s history is told.
From Wikipedia’s history of Heath Springs.
Heath Springs was incorporated in 1890. It was named for the firm Heath & Springs.
The Battle of Hanging Rock Historic Site and Heath Springs Depot are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
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.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Heath Springs. 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 Heath Springs.
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 266 and 979 people in every census since 1900.
13 censuses, 1900–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Heath Springs’ Wikipedia page.
Nobody well known was born in Heath Springs itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Another post office, Pleasant Hill, opened and closed inside today’s town.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
In 1890, according to Wikidata and Wikipedia’s history of the town. Heath Springs’ post office opened in 1826, and the census of 1900 counted 266 people here.
One place: the Heath Springs Depot (listed 1990).
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), Wikipedia, 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.
