Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: maps from 1965 on and the census since 1880.
Mayfield dates its founding to 1871 (Wikidata and Wikipedia’s history agree). The census first counted it in 1880.
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 Mayfield’s history is told.
Lost half of its people between 1920 and 1970, then more than doubled.
15 censuses, 1880–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Mayfield’s Wikipedia page.
From Wikipedia’s history of Mayfield.
Mayfield was settled in 1871. Some of the area's founding families included the Andersons, Petersons, Petersens, Bartholomews, Jensens, Sorensens, and Willdens. When the first white settlers arrived, they learned that this area was considered sacred by the Indians, who said it was a "healing ground." It is said that no fighting has ever occurred in Mayfield.
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 Mayfield. 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 Mayfield.
Nobody well known was born in Mayfield itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
In 1871, according to Wikidata and Wikipedia’s history of the town. Mayfield’s post office opened in 1877, and the census of 1880 counted 330 people here.
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 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.
