Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Most of Snook was built recently: 3% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1979. Its Register listing is the Ethiopian Star Lodge #308.
The Snook post office opened in 1895, 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 Snook’s history is told.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Snook yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Snook is a city in Burleson County, Texas, United States. Its population was 506 at the 2020 census.
Its first post office opened in 1895. Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 511 in 2010, 506 in 2020.
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 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.
Nobody well known was born in Snook itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
The Snook post office opened in 1895, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
One place: the Ethiopian Star Lodge #308 (listed 2025).
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 (1), 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.
