Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 79% of U.S. towns · #49 of 71 in Vermont. What drives it
10 places in town are on the National Register. Below: maps from 1884 on and the census since 1790.
The Lyndon post office opened in 1811, the earliest record of the town by name.
More historic than 79% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Lyndon is more historic than 79% of U.S. towns, #49 of 71 in Vermont. 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 Lyndon’s 17.9 sits below most of its state (33% of Vermont towns have fewer) while its 10 listings outnumber those of 76% of U.S. towns.
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 →
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 Lyndon’s history is told.
Fire insurance maps drew every building, what it was made of and what it was used for, so insurers could price the risk of fire. Pick a year, then a sheet.
1884Sheet 1 of 1Sanborn Map Company, via the Library of Congress. Editions published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving. Boundary changes and added documentation are counted with their listing.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
From Wikipedia’s history of Lyndon.
When Rhode Island proprietors secured the original Lyndon township grant, the area was covered in forests and woodlands. The Passumpsic River, flowing through the center of the town, provided power for grist and saw mills. The charter of the town of Lyndon was signed by Governor Thomas Chittenden in 1780.
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 hereFrancis S. Hoyt is born here
Born hereCharles W. Willard is born here
Born hereHarvey O. Young is born here
Born hereHenry Francis Green is born hereBuiltBurrington Covered Bridge is builtBuiltCentre Covered Bridge is builtBuiltBradley Covered Bridge is builtBuiltChamberlin Mill Covered Bridge is built
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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2019Luther Burnham Harris Campus memorial plaque Lyndon I…
2019Flooding Center Street at VT Rte 122 Lyndon VT April …
2019Civil War cannon "Il Porcellino" bronze fountain park…
2019Baby Jesus Coming Soon sign Lyndon Center Baptist Chu…
2018Burke Lyndon road marker VT Rte 114 Lyndon VT Decembe…
2017House, covered passageway, and barn, all attached, ne…
2016LyndonVT Riverside
2016LyndonVT District6Schoolhouse
2016LyndonVT CobleighPublicLibrary
2016LyndonVT BakerHall
2016LyndonVT 1809TownHall
2012Burke from the West
2011Lyndon, Vermont
2010Lyndon State College
2010LSC Residence Halls
2004Lyndon vt highlightThe U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Lyndon.
1986Lyndonville 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 Lyndon.
Between 59 and 5,981 people in every census since 1790.
24 censuses, 1790–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Lyndon’s Wikipedia page.
Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.
Lyndon’s post office has been open since 1811.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Lyndon post office opened in 1811, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
Lyndon is more historic than 79% of U.S. towns, #49 of 71 in Vermont. 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.
10 listings: 5 buildings and 5 structures.
21% of Lyndon’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±6.6 points), against a typical 22% for a Vermont town; the median home was built in 1981.
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 (26), the Library of Congress (1), Wikidata (4), the National Register of Historic Places (10), 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), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and Sanborn fire insurance maps (Library of Congress). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
