Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: 11 old photos and papers and maps from 1966 on.
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 King’s history is told.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of King yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
King is a town in Lincoln County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 964 at the 2020 census.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 855 to 964 (+13%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Date?Wisconsin Home for Veterans
Date?Wisconsin Home for Veterans, 117 Bragg Avenue (House)
Date?Wisconsin Home for Veterans, 116 Bragg Avenue (House)
Date?Wisconsin Home for Veterans, 216 Bragg Avenue (House)
Date?Wisconsin Home for Veterans, 415 North Drive (Cottage)
Date?Wisconsin Home for Veterans, 412 North Drive (Cottage)
Date?Wisconsin Home for Veterans, 113 Wright Avenue (House)
Date?Wisconsin Home for Veterans, 114 Wright Avenue (House)
Date?Wisconsin Home for Veterans, 115 Wright Avenue (House)
Date?Wisconsin Home for Veterans, 118 Bragg Avenue (House)
Date?Wisconsin Home for Veterans, 217 Bragg Avenue (House)Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of King. 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 King.
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on King’s page.
Retake this view · +15Nobody well known was born in King 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 the Library of Congress (11), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
