Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: maps from 1899 on and the census since 1920.
The Hatley post office opened in 1881, 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 Hatley’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Hatley. 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 Hatley.
From Wikipedia’s history of Hatley.
A post office called Hatley has been in operation since 1881. The village was named after Hatley, Quebec, the former hometown of an early settler.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Hatley, cut from the printed page as they were published.
The village of Hatley has voted to incorporate and will be an independent political entity in 1913. Hatley has become an important shipping point for train loads of potatoes raised in the vicinity.
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
long time; if they wanted to come to the county seat, they had to travel by way of Stevens Point. But that has been remedied and two goc5d highways connect Wausau now with that thriving settlement, one being the so-called Waupaca road and another one by way of the village of Hatley.
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.
Grew from 290 people in 1920 to 648 in 2020.
11 censuses, 1920–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Hatley’s Wikipedia page.
Nobody well known was born in Hatley itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Hatley post office opened in 1881, 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 (2), 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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