Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: maps from 1919 on and the census since 1990.
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 Oakdale’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Oakdale. 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 Oakdale.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Oakdale yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Oakdale is a village in Monroe County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 302 at the 2020 census. The village is located within the Town of Oakdale.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 772 to 754 (-2%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Oakdale, cut from the printed page as they were published.
storm was from Jackson county down through a portion of the town of Lincoln, across the cast side of LaGrange, through the southwest corner of Byron, and then midway through the town of Oakdale. The cyclone struck Oakdale near J. C. Hill’s farm and destroyed Mr. Hill's barns and other buildings, exeept his house. All of the buildings on the farms of Mr. Myers and Mr. Musser were destroyed, as were also all the buildings on the farm of Fred
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After their marriage, Mr. Rogge purchased a farm of 260 acres in sections nineteen and twenty in the town of Oakdale, which he has since continued to improve and beautify until it is one of the ideal country homes in Monroe county. The soil is highly productive and the water supply comes from natural springs in the hillside. They have a comfortable residence and eommodious outbuildings, and in connection with his general farming he carries on a profitable dairy business, and the place
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.
Between 162 and 302 people in every census since 1990.
4 censuses, 1990–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Oakdale’s Wikipedia page.
Nobody well known was born in Oakdale itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
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 Wikimedia Commons (6), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), 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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