Founding year: the first Union Hall post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).
History grade
What drives Union Hall’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Union Hall is more historic than 30% of U.S. towns. Its age holds the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls it down.
C
HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Union Hall’s overall grade.
Virginia towns list more on the Register than most of the country (a typical Virginia town has 3.6 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Union Hall’s 0.0 sits below most of its state (17% of Virginia towns have fewer) while its 0 listings outnumber those of 23% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from D to C+. The pre-1940 share (±2.0 points) is firm at this size. The founding year is the first post office, not a stated founding date.
Founding year: the first post office (other dates in Quick answers). Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →
What stands out about Union Hall’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Berger Cemetery · Bernard Cemetery · Bernard Cemetery · Brooks Cemetery · Brown-Kelly Cemetery · Cundiff Cemetery · David Cemetery · David Cemetery · Davis Cemetery · Dillon Cemetery · Dudley Cemetery · English Cemetery · Fralin Cemetery · Holland Cemetery · Holland-Powell Cemetery · Housman Cemetery · Housman-Ferguson Cemetery · Kesler Cemetery · Mattox Cemetery · Maxey Cemetery · Newbill Cemetery · Old Bethel Cemetery · Perdue Cemetery · Perdue Cemetery · Poindexter-Saunders Cemetery · Robertson Cemetery
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
The story so far
Union Hall, in brief
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Union Hall yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Union Hall is a census-designated place (CDP) in Franklin County, Virginia, United States. As of the 2020 census, Union Hall had a population of 1,328. It is part of the Roanoke metropolitan area.
Its first post office opened in 1826. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 1,138 to 1,328 (+17%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
By decade
No old photos in the archives yet
Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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The Union Hall post office opened in 1826, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
How does Union Hall rank for history?
Union Hall is more historic than 30% of U.S. towns. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
How old are the homes in Union Hall?
2% of Union Hall’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±2.0 points), against a typical 1.9% for a Virginia town; the median home was built in 1995.
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).
From Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, 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.