Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 50% of U.S. towns · #210 of 362 in Wisconsin. What drives it
Most of Sevastopol was built recently: 8% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1987. Its Register listings are the OCEAN WAVE (Shipwreck), the AUSTRALASIA (wooden bulk carrier) Shipwreck and the SUCCESS (scow schooner) Shipwreck. Below: 6 old photos and papers, maps from 1960 on, and old-book passages.
The Sevastopol post office opened in 1874, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, Institute (1892) and Valmy (1899), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
More historic than 50% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Sevastopol is more historic than 50% of U.S. towns, #210 of 362 in Wisconsin. Its National Register listings hold the grade up; its age pulls it down.
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 Sevastopol’s 10.6 sits above most of its state (77% of Wisconsin towns have fewer) while its 3 listings outnumber those of 65% of U.S. towns.
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 →
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Sevastopol had its own post office from 1874 to 1902. Two other post offices 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 Sevastopol yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Sevastopol ( sə-VASS-tə-pohl) is a town in Door County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 2,826 at the 2020 census.
Its first post office opened in 1874. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 2,628 to 2,826 (+8%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Sevastopol, cut from the printed page as they were published.
At the February meeting, 1860, the Board granted the petition. By some means "Sevastopol" was enterred on the records as "Sez'astopol," and it has gone by the latter name ever since. Sevastopol is now one of the most important towns in the county, and within its limits are many good farms.
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.
In the archiveCirsium pitcheri Door County Wisconsin
In the archiveChateau Hutter resort, Sevastopol, Door County, Wisconsin 1955 (cropped)
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
In the archiveAerial view of Sevastopol Martin Orchards area3 decades in the archive, from the 1890s to the 1970s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Sevastopol. 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 Sevastopol.
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Sevastopol’s page.
Retake this view · +15The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Nobody well known was born in Sevastopol itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Sevastopol post office opened in 1874, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
Sevastopol is more historic than 50% of U.S. towns, #210 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.
Three places: the OCEAN WAVE (Shipwreck) (listed 2006), the AUSTRALASIA (wooden bulk carrier) Shipwreck (2013) and the SUCCESS (scow schooner) Shipwreck (2015).
8% of Sevastopol’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±3.6 points), against a typical 12% for a Wisconsin town; the median home was built in 1987.
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).
From Wikimedia Commons (6), the National Register of Historic Places (3), 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.
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