Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 23% of U.S. towns · #164 of 285 in Washington. What drives it
Most of Clover Creek was built recently: 8% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1990. Below: maps from 1941 on and old-book passages.
More historic than 23% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Clover Creek is more historic than 23% of U.S. towns, #164 of 285 in Washington. Its share of homes from before 1940 holds the grade up; its National Register listings pull it down.
Few Washington towns list much on the Register (a typical Washington town has 0.1 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Clover Creek’s 0.0 sits below most of its state (27% of Washington towns have fewer) while its 0 listings outnumber those of 23% of U.S. towns.
Founding year: our sources. 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 Clover Creek’s history is told.
Another post office, Brookdale, 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).
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Clover Creek yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Clover Creek is a census-designated place (CDP) located in Pierce County, Washington. As of the 2020 census, Clover Creek had a population of 7,161.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 6,522 to 7,161 (+10%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Clover Creek, cut from the printed page as they were published.
father in the operation of the home farm until 1887, when he came to the United States, locating in Minnesota, where he lived about a year. He then came to Washington, and for a few days was employed at plastering in Tacoma, after which he went to work in a sawmill near Clover Creek, where he remained about a year. During the ensuing summer he was employed on Mr. Greenlaw’s ranch, after which he
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.
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Clover Creek. 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 Clover Creek.
Nobody well known was born in Clover Creek itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Clover Creek is more historic than 23% of U.S. towns, #164 of 285 in Washington. 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.
8% of Clover Creek’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±6.0 points), against a typical 4.3% for a Washington town; the median home was built in 1990.
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 U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, 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.
