Its Register listings are the Rutland Railroad Pumping Station and the U.S. Inspection Station-Alburg Springs, Vermont. Its Register listings are the Rutland Railroad Pumping Station and the U.S. Inspection Station-Alburg Springs, Vermont. Below: maps from 1895 on and the census since 1790.
The Alburgh post office opened in 1817, the earliest record of the town by name. Five smaller post offices, East Alburg (1826), West Alburgh (1834) and Alburg Springs (1835), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
First census: 446 in 17902020 census: 2,106209 years
How historic is Alburgh?
B+
More historic than 74% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
Founding year: the first Alburgh post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).
History grade
What drives Alburgh’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Alburgh is more historic than 74% of U.S. towns. Its age holds the grade up; its National Register listings pull it down.
B+
HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Alburgh’s overall grade.
Vermont towns list more on the Register than most of the country (a typical Vermont town has 147 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Alburgh’s 16.4 sits below most of its state (30% of Vermont towns have fewer) while its 3 historic buildings outnumber those of 65% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from B to A−. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±5.8 points). 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 Alburgh’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Alburgh. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1895Rouse Point sheet · 1:62,500
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Alburgh.
The story so far
Alburgh, in brief
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Alburgh yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Alburgh (formerly Alburg) is a town in Grand Isle County, Vermont, United States, founded in 1781 by Ira Allen. The population was 2,106 at the 2020 United States census. Alburgh is on the Alburgh Tongue, a peninsula extending from Canada into Lake Champlain, and lies on the only road-based route across Lake Champlain to New York state north of Addison, Vermont.
Its first post office opened in 1817.
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Timeline
Alburgh, 1817 to 1918
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
The Alburgh post office opened in 1817, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
How does Alburgh rank for history?
Alburgh is more historic than 74% 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.
What is on the National Register in Alburgh?
Two places: the Rutland Railroad Pumping Station (listed 1999) and the U.S. Inspection Station-Alburg Springs, Vermont (2014).
How old are the homes in Alburgh?
20% of Alburgh’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±5.8 points), against a typical 22% for a Vermont town; the median home was built in 1984.
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 (2), the National Register of Historic Places (2), Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, 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.
