Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: maps from 1903 on and the census since 1800.
Waltham dates its founding to 1796 (Wikidata). The census first counted it in 1800.
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 Waltham’s history is told.
Lost a third of its people between 1830 and 1930, then more than doubled.
23 censuses, 1800–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Waltham’s Wikipedia page.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyWikipedia doesn’t have a history of Waltham yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Waltham is a town in Addison County, Vermont, United States. The population was 446 at the 2020 census.
Waltham was established in 1796. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 486 to 446 (-8%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Waltham, cut from the printed page as they were published.
1 79 1, a part of the town was annexed to Weybridge. October 23, 1783, a corner was taken to aid in the incorporation of the city of Vergennes, a portion of which, together with a part of Addison and this town, were in November, 1796, taken to form the town of Waltham. Amongst the first permanent settlers, except those already mentioned, were Cook and Andrew Barton in the Waltham part, Justus Sturdevant and David Stowe in the Weybridge part, and Captain Miles Bradley, Enos Peck, Elijah Foot, Elisha Fuller, Bazadeel Rudd, William Eno and others, in the New
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the citizens, March 30, 1797, its organization was perfected by the election of P. Brown, moderator; Andrew Barton, jr., town clerk and treasurer; Doctor Griswold, constable and collector, and Phinehas Brown, Joseph Langworthy, and Moses Pier, selectmen. The name of Waltham was suggested as a proper one for the new town by Phinehas Brown, who came from Waltham, Mass. It has no post-office and never had a separate charter, and had no common business center within its limits, being a strictly agricultural town, the business of its citizens in trade and commerce being transacted in the city of Vergennes
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.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Waltham. 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 Waltham.
Nobody well known was born in Waltham itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
In 1796, according to Wikidata. the census of 1800 counted 247 people here.
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 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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