Most of Quincy was built recently: 4% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1981. Below: maps from 1961 on and the census since 1870.
Founding year: the first Quincy post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).
History grade
What drives Quincy’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Quincy is more historic than 21% of U.S. towns. Its age holds the grade up; its National Register listings pull it down.
C−
HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Quincy’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 Quincy’s 0.0 sits below most of its state (28% of Wisconsin towns have fewer) while its 0 listings outnumber those of 23% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would still be C−. The pre-1940 share (±2.1 points) is firm at this size. 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 Quincy’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Lost half of its people between 1870 and 1960, then grew 4-fold.
16 censuses, 1870–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Quincy’s Wikipedia page.
The story so far
Quincy, in brief
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Quincy yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Quincy is a town in Adams County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The population was 1,159 at the 2020 census, slightly down from 1,163 at the 2010 census. The ghost town of Quincy was located in the town.
Its first post office opened in 1854. Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 1,163 in 2010, 1,159 in 2020.
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Timeline
Quincy, 1854 to 2000
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
The Quincy post office opened in 1854, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
How does Quincy rank for history?
Quincy is more historic than 21% of U.S. towns. 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.
How old are the homes in Quincy?
4% of Quincy’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±2.1 points), against a typical 12% for a Wisconsin town; the median home was built in 1981.
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 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.
