Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: maps from 1893 on and the census since 1790.
The Mount Tabor post office opened in 1876, the earliest record of the town by name.
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 Mount Tabor’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Mount Tabor. 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 Mount Tabor.
Peaked at 495 in 1880; 210 people lived here in 2020.
24 censuses, 1790–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Mount Tabor’s Wikipedia page.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Mount Tabor yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Mount Tabor is a town in Rutland County, Vermont, United States. The population was 210 at the 2020 census.
Its first post office opened in 1876. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 255 to 210 (-18%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Mount Tabor, cut from the printed page as they were published.
the town, including the governor's lot, in the valley of the Otter Creek, was first settled, and titles obtained by " pitches " and vendue sales for taxes. It was ascertained in 1857, by running the town line between Danby and Mount Tabor, that parties claiming under Danby had crowded into Mount Tabor, ten rods at Danby borough, the center of said line, which takes about sixty acres of land, eight dwellings, the meeting-house and the old banking-house, all treated as being in Danby, and will virtually form Mount Tabor, " and remain 1 The spelling of these names is as it appears on the records.
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
THE town of Mount Tabor is situated in tlie southeast corner of Rutland county, and is bounded on the north by WaUingford and Mount Holly; on the east by Weston (Windsor county) ; on the south by Peru and Dorset (Bennington county), and on the west by Danby. It was chartered August 28, 1 761, by Benning Wentworth, of New Hampshire, under the name of "Harwick," to Jonathan Willard and si.xty others ; it contained 23,040 acres, and the usual reservations were made for the school, ministerial and governor's lots.
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Mount Tabor had its own post office from 1876 to 1891.
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 Mount Tabor post office opened in 1876, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
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), 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 old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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