Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Its Register listings are the Auburntown High School Gym and the Bank of Auburn. Below: maps from 1908 on and the census since 1880.
The Auburntown post office opened in 1919, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Auburn (1850), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
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 Auburntown’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Auburntown. 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 Auburntown.
From Wikipedia’s history of Auburntown.
Once known as Poplar Stand, due to large population of poplar trees in the area, Auburntown was eventually renamed after Auburn, New York. It was incorporated in 1949.
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.
Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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 107 and 273 people in every census since 1880.
9 censuses, 1880–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Auburntown’s Wikipedia page.
Nobody well known was born in Auburntown itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Auburntown’s post office has been open since 1919. Another post office, Auburn, 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).
The Auburntown post office opened in 1919, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
Two places: the Auburntown High School Gym (listed 2022) and the Bank of Auburn (2026).
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 the National Register of Historic Places (2), 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.
