Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Its Register listing is the Tudor House. Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1898 on, and the census since 1790.
Stamford dates its founding to 1753 (Wikidata). It appears in the first U.S. census, 1790.
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 Stamford’s history is told.
Lost half of its people between 1850 and 1930, then more than doubled.
24 censuses, 1790–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Stamford’s Wikipedia page.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Stamford. 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 Stamford.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Stamford yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Stamford is a town in Bennington County, Vermont, United States. The population was 861 at the 2020 census.
Stamford was established in 1753. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 824 to 861 (+4%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Born hereStephen C. Millard is born here
Born hereAlbert Charles Houghton is born here
Born hereFrank Dalmon Stafford is born here
In the archiveStamford Library ca1897 Vermont
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
BuiltTudor House is builtOne decade in the archive so far: the 1890s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Stamford’s page.
Retake this view · +15The 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.
Stamford had its own post office from 1832 to 1909.
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.
In 1753, according to Wikidata. Stamford’s post office opened in 1832, and the first U.S. census counted 272 people here in 1790.
One place: the Tudor House (listed 1979).
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 (5), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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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