Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: maps from 1961 on and old-book passages.
The Newton post office opened in 1854, 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 Newton’s history is told.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Newton yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Newton is a town in Marquette County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 529 during the 2020 census.
Its first post office opened in 1854. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 547 to 529 (-3%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Newton, cut from the printed page as they were published.
resent our family in Christian names so closely that I have concluded the family was more probably allied with that one in the north part of Lancashire. perhaps Whettington parish or one adjacent. In Domesday Survey mention is made of Neutona (Newton) a; being held by Earl Tostey, and the Newtons of Whettington evidently obtainod their sur name from this manor. I have the will of William Newton of Whe:- tington, dated August 12, 1554, which mentions a Brvan Newton and sonne Thomas Newton. Later wills and inquisitions contain these sig-
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Mr. Alexander spent a great amount of time in an effort to find the charge made against Thomas Newton- Savage said it doubtless was witchcraft. Lull personally told me he thought it was adultery, but Alexander has proven this was not the charge and wrote me that he was convinced Thomas Newton was a victim of conspiracy on the part of Roger Ludlow and other enemies of Newton, for it took but one witness to convict of a capital crime. Alexander advised me he had investigated the charges of witchcraft against two of his own ancestors.
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.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyWeddings 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 Newton. 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 Newton.
Nobody well known was born in Newton itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Newton had its own post office from 1854 to 1857.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Newton post office opened in 1854, 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 U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, 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.
