Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: maps from 1958 on and old-book passages.
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 Scott’s history is told.
Another post office, Wheatville, opened and closed inside today’s town.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Scott yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Scott is a town in Crawford County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 519 at the 2020 census. The unincorporated communities of Harmony Hill, Mount Zion, and Plugtown are located in the town.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 462 to 519 (+12%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Scott, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Scott, Samuel Smalley and Prez Hillard. At this time no schoolhouse had been erected in the northern part of the township." The districts were not laid out as at the present time, but there might have been a schoolhouse in the Foster- Andrews neighborhood, near Bucyrus.
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
But little is known concerning the schools taught here, though two of the early teachers were Elizabeth Bear and Jonas Scott V* schoolhouse was so near Bucyrus, tha U* larger scholars preferred going to the laiwr place, though school was still taught in tue schoolhouse for the benefit of the smaller cm dren. who were unable to walk through the bad
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 Scott. 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 Scott.
Nobody well known was born in Scott 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 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.
