Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: maps from 1978 on and the census since 1910.
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 Dallas’s history is told.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Dallas yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Dallas is a village in Barron County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The population was 359 at the 2020 census. The village is located within the Town of Dallas.
Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 574 in 2010, 570 in 2020.
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Dallas, cut from the printed page as they were published.
created. The name of the original town of Dallas, as noted, was changed to Barron, the name of the original town of Lakeland was changed to Cumberland, and the name of the original town of Rice Lake was changed to Stanley, and the present towns of Dallas, Lakeland and Rice Lake were created later.
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
Louis Holt, a prominent citizen living on Section 13, west, Dallas Town¬ ship, is one of the best known men in this part of the county. He came here from Eau Claire, this state, in 1888, and took up his home at Dallas, where he lived until 1901, when he moved onto his present farm of 40 acres, which he had purchased in 1897. For some years he worked in the sawmills at Dallas.
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.
Weddings 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 Dallas. 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 Dallas.
Between 342 and 477 people in every census since 1910.
12 censuses, 1910–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Dallas’ Wikipedia page.
Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
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 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.
