Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Its Register listings are the Backus-Marblemount Ranger Station House No. 1009 and the Backus-Marblemount Ranger Station House No. 1010. Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1953 on, and the census since 2000.
The Marblemount post office opened in 1890, 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 Marblemount’s history is told.
From Wikipedia’s history of Marblemount.
Present-day Marblemount was the site of an indigenous village when naturalist George Gibbs explored the region in 1858. A community of Euro-Americans arose in the 1870s to supply goods for miners along the Skagit and Cascade River drainages. A wagon road was built between Marblemount and Sauk in 1892.
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.
BuiltBackus-Marblemount Ranger Station House No. 1009 is built
BuiltBackus-Marblemount Ranger Station House No. 1010 is built
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
In the archiveSkagit fish hatchery, circa 1980sOne decade in the archive so far: the 1980s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Marblemount. 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 Marblemount.
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 Marblemount’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.
Between 203 and 286 people in every census since 2000.
3 censuses, 2000–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Marblemount’s Wikipedia page.
Nobody well known was born in Marblemount itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
The Marblemount post office opened in 1890, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
Two places: the Backus-Marblemount Ranger Station House No. 1009 (listed 1989) and the Backus-Marblemount Ranger Station House No. 1010 (1989).
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 (6), the National Register of Historic Places (2), Wikipedia, 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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