Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: maps from 1955 on and the census since 1880.
The Cascade post office opened in 1849, 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 Cascade’s history is told.
From Wikipedia’s history of Cascade.
With the construction of two 100-kilowatt wind turbines in June 2010, Cascade became the first community in Wisconsin to use locally produced wind energy to power its municipal wastewater treatment plant.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Cascade, cut from the printed page as they were published.
made of bark and poles. One of their largest settlements in the county was on both sides of the Sheboygan river, below the Ashby place, comprising about 500 men, women and children. A large encampment was situated near the village of Cascade, another not far away to the south, and on to the west of Cascade. There was also an Indian village in the town of Russell and at Sheboygan, and at all these places the red man had tilled patches of ground, where they cultivated com and potatoes. Their habits, while in the 55
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In 1850 the Sheboygan & Mayville Plank- Road Company was incorporated. The road was to extend from some point in the town of Sheboygan, or Sheboygan Falls, through the village of Cascade to Mayville, in Dodge county. In 1848 the Sheboygan & Fond du Lac Plank-Road was incorporated.
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 Cascade. 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 Cascade.
Grew from 255 people in 1880 to 722 in 2020.
12 censuses, 1880–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Cascade’s Wikipedia page.
Nobody well known was born in Cascade itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
The Cascade post office opened in 1849, 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 (3), Wikipedia, 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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