Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Its Register listing is the Plymouth School. Below: maps from 1989 on and the census since 1880.
Plymouth dates its founding to 1869 (Wikidata). 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 Plymouth’s history is told.
Lost two-thirds of its people between 1900 and 1970, then more than doubled.
15 censuses, 1880–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Plymouth’s Wikipedia page.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Plymouth yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Plymouth is a town in Box Elder County, Utah, United States. The population was 427 at the 2020 census.
Plymouth was established in 1869. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 414 to 427 (+3%).
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 SurveyThe U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Plymouth.
1989Tremonton sheet · 1:100,000U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Plymouth.
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 Plymouth itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
In 1869, according to Wikidata. Plymouth’s post office opened in 1875, and the census of 1880 counted 300 people here.
One place: the Plymouth School (listed 1986).
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 (1), the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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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