Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: maps from 1926 on and the census since 1880.
The Chaseburg post office opened in 1863, 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 Chaseburg’s history is told.
Peaked at 365 in 1990; 241 people lived here in 2020.
11 censuses, 1880–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Chaseburg’s Wikipedia page.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Chaseburg yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Chaseburg ( CHAYSS-bərg) is a village in Vernon County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 241 at the 2020 census.
Its first post office opened in 1863. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 284 to 241 (-15%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Chaseburg, cut from the printed page as they were published.
at the battle of South Mountain in the left arm and at the battle of the wilderness was wounded in the right arm. In 1867, Mr. Markle came to tbe village of Chaseburg, where he has carried on the business of blacksmithing and manufacturing wagons, and now owns sixty-two acres of land on section 28, also a house and three lots and a smith wagon and paint shop in the
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at the battle of South Mountain in the left arm and at the battle of the wilderness was wounded in the right arm. In 1867, Mr. Markle came to the village of Chaseburg, where he has carried on the business of blacksmithing and manufacturing wagons, and now owns sixty-two acres of land on section 28, also a house and three lots and a smith wagon and paint shop in the
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The first sermon in the village of Chaseburg, was preached in 1863, by Rev. H. A. Stub, in the house of Henry Chase.
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 SurveyEvery edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Chaseburg. 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 Chaseburg.
Nobody well known was born in Chaseburg itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
The Chaseburg post office opened in 1863, 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), 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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