Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: maps from 1900 on and the census since 1870.
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 Patch Grove’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Patch Grove. 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 Patch Grove.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Patch Grove yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Patch Grove is a village in Grant County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 201 at the 2020 census. The village is located within the Town of Patch Grove.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 339 to 364 (+7%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Patch Grove, cut from the printed page as they were published.
October. 1851, when Ira Tracy became the pastor, preaching at Patch Grove and the Red School-house, and afterward at some other points. The first services of the society were held in “Pap” Blunt's barn in the town of Patch Grove. In 1855 the erection of a church budding was begun a mile and a half southwest of the new village of Tafton. Mr. Tracy con tinned as pastor until April, 1856, when he was succeeded by Rev. A. M. Dixon, of Platteville. Some time after¬ ward Mr. Tracy went to Minnesot and died there in 1875. Mr.
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The first settler in the original town of Patch Grove was Page Blake, who settled in Section 17, Town 5, Range 5, just south of the present town line, in 1831. In 1832, after the Black Hawk War, Mo¬ ses Hicklin came out from Cassville and settled on the farm where he lived until his death, and John Thompson, a discharged soldier from the garrison at Prairie du Chien, settled in the same neighborhood.
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 166 and 259 people in every census since 1870.
11 censuses, 1870–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Patch Grove’s Wikipedia page.
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 Wikimedia Commons (3), Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, 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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