Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: maps from 1971 on and old-book passages.
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 Harmony’s history is told.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Harmony yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Harmony is a town in Price County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 220 at the 2020 census.
Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 222 in 2010, 220 in 2020.
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Harmony, cut from the printed page as they were published.
whose personal history and that of his immediate descendants were given, with brief sketches of some of those of later generations, mainly in the line of his son William, who succeeded his fathor in the occupancy of Harmony Grove. John G. Jackson ft>llowe<l, with an essay, which, as the two had been prepared without concert between the writers, covered in part the same ground, Mit diffennl in style and treatment. By special request of some of those interested, part of a versified description of Harmony
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 Harmony. 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 Harmony.
Nobody well known was born in Harmony itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
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, 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.
