Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Most of Huxley was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1978.
The Huxley post office opened in 1903, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Pauls Store (1886), opened inside today’s city 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 Huxley’s history is told.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Huxley yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Huxley is a city in Shelby County, Texas, United States. Its population was 361 at the 2020 census.
Its first post office opened in 1903. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 385 to 361 (-6%).
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.
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 Huxley itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Huxley had its own post office from 1903 to 1906. Another post office, Pauls Store, 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 Huxley post office opened in 1903, 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 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.