Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Most of Creedmoor was built recently: 4% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1985. Below: maps from 1955 on and the census since 1990.
The Creedmoor post office opened in 1880, the earliest record of the town by name.
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 Creedmoor’s history is told.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Creedmoor yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Creedmoor is a city in Travis County, Texas, United States. The population was 458 at the 2020 census.
Its first post office opened in 1880. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 202 to 458 (+127%).
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 SurveyEvery edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Creedmoor. 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 Creedmoor.
Grew from 194 people in 1990 to 458 in 2020.
4 censuses, 1990–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Creedmoor’s Wikipedia page.
Nobody well known was born in Creedmoor itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Creedmoor had its own post office from 1880 to 1954.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
The Creedmoor post office opened in 1880, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
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 Wikimedia Commons (3), 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.
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