Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 80% of U.S. towns. What drives it
1 place in town is on the National Register, among them a historic district with 4 buildings. Below: maps from 1967 on and the census since 1790.
Concord dates its founding to 1780 (Wikipedia’s history). It appears in the first U.S. census, 1790.
More historic than 80% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Concord is more historic than 80% of U.S. towns. All 3 inputs are above most U.S. towns; its age ranks highest and its National Register listings lowest.
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 Concord’s 34.9 sits near the middle of its state (43% of Vermont towns have fewer) while its 4 historic buildings outnumber those of 68% of U.S. towns.
Founding year: Wikipedia (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 →
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 Concord’s history is told.
Concord’s post office has been open since 1804. Two other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Peaked at 1,612 in 1880; 1,141 people lived here in 2020.
24 censuses, 1790–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Concord’s Wikipedia page.
From Wikipedia’s history of Concord.
Concord was chartered on September 15, 1780, to Reuben Jones and others from Rockingham, Vermont. Concord was first settled by Simon Willard, a fur trader, and two other men. It gets its name from Concord, Massachusetts.
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.
Born hereHarry Hibbard is born here
Born hereEdward Franklin Bingham is born here
Born hereHerbert Adams is born here
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
2026North Concord VT 5-19-26
2025East Concord VT 8-16-2025
2025Concord VT 9-21-25
2025Concord VT 8-16-2025b
2017A saltbox-style house and its adjacent barn near Conc…
2017The Moose River Lodge, a Masonic building
2016ConcordVT TownOffices
2016ConcordVT TownClerk
2016ConcordVT Museum
2016ConcordVT JudgeDavidHibbardHomestead
2016ConcordVT CommunityChurch
2004Concord vt highlightEvery edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Concord. 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 Concord.
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.
Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
In 1780, according to Wikipedia’s history of the town. Concord’s post office opened in 1804, and the first U.S. census counted 49 people here in 1790.
Concord is more historic than 80% 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.
One place: the Judge David Hibbard Homestead (listed 1995).
22% of Concord’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 1977.
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).
From Wikimedia Commons (10), the Library of Congress (2), the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, 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.
