Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: old-book passages.
The Dallas post office opened in 1877, 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 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 first post office opened in 1877. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 409 to 359 (-12%).
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.
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Dallas Township occupies Township 32, Range 12. Originally the whole county was known as Dallas. The name was changed to Barron on Feb. 6, 1869, and then there was no Dallas Township until March 30, 1874, when the present Dallas Township was created with its present boundaries. The first town meeting of the present town of Dallas was held in the schoolhouse of sub¬ district 7, on April 7, 1874, and the following officers elected: Supervisors, B. B. Fuller (chairman), W. T. Cole and N. C. Gylstad; clerk, Charles Salsbury; treasurer, Joseph Pecore; assessor, D. Pooler; justices, Francis Finley, S. Wy-
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Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Dallas’s post office has been open since 1877.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
The Dallas post office opened in 1877, 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 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.