Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Its Register listing is the Holland Congregational Church. Below: maps from 1986 on and the census since 1810.
The Holland post office opened in 1843, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, West Holland (1879) and Tice (1899), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
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 Holland’s history is told.
Peaked at 913 in 1880; 632 people lived here in 2020.
22 censuses, 1810–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Holland’s Wikipedia page.
Holland had its own post office from 1843 to 1905. 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).
From Wikipedia’s history of Holland.
The original town was laid out in quarter sections, that is, each grantee had about 1/4 of a square mile, or 160 acres (0.65 km2) each.
In 1973, a promoter staged a rock concert which 30,000, mostly young people, attended, overwhelming local resources.
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 hereWilliam S. Ladd is born here
Born hereHorace Tabor is born here
Born hereLucy Mabel Hall-Brown is born here
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyThe U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Holland.
1986West Charleston sheet · 1:24,000U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Holland.
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.
The Holland post office opened in 1843, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
One place: the Holland Congregational Church (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 (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.
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