Founding year: the first North Hudson post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).
History grade
What drives North Hudson’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, North Hudson is more historic than 69% of U.S. towns, #130 of 362 in Wisconsin. Its National Register listings hold the grade up; its age pulls it down.
B+
HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of North Hudson’s overall grade.
Wisconsin towns list more on the Register than most of the country (a typical Wisconsin town has 3.0 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so North Hudson’s 34.0 sits above most of its state (86% of Wisconsin towns have fewer) while its 13 historic buildings outnumber those of 77% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from B− to A−. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±9.3 points). The founding year is the first post office, not a stated founding date.
Founding year: the first post office (other dates in Quick answers). Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →
What stands out about North Hudson’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of North Hudson yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
North Hudson is a village in St. Croix County, Wisconsin, United States. The village is located in the Minneapolis–St. Paul metropolitan area. The population was 3,803 at the 2020 census.
Its first post office opened in 1876. Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 3,768 in 2010, 3,803 in 2020.
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Timeline
North Hudson, 1876 to 1946
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
The North Hudson post office opened in 1876, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
How does North Hudson rank for history?
North Hudson is more historic than 69% of U.S. towns, #130 of 362 in Wisconsin. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
What is on the National Register in North Hudson?
One place: the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railroad Car Shop Historic District (listed 1984).
How old are the homes in North Hudson?
17% of North Hudson’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±9.3 points), against a typical 12% for a Wisconsin town; the median home was built in 1986.
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).
From Wikidata (2), the National Register of Historic Places (1), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) 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.
