Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: maps from 1965 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 Stanfold’s history is told.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Stanfold yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Stanfold is a town in Barron County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The population was 701 at the 2020 census, down from 719 at the 2010 census.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 719 to 701 (-3%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Stanfold, cut from the printed page as they were published.
fixed and profitable feature of the agriculture of the county. Since the estab¬ lishment of the plant at Barron, similar ones have been established at Rice Lake, Cumberland, Chetek and Turtle Lake, with vining stations at Floans Farm, Town of Stanfold, Almena, Besslerton and Hillsdale. A factory at Clear Lake and vining station at Clayton, both outside the county, secure a large part of their peas from Barron County farms. At times some of these concerns Digitized by Google
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
was changed to Stanley by a vote of the county board, on May 11, 1882. Then for many years there was no Rice Lake Township. At the spring election of 1896, the voters of Township 35, Range 11, expressed themselves favorable to a separation from the then town of Stanfold, and the county board confirmed the act Nov. 10, 1896. The first town meeting was ordered held at the home of Philip Roux, on April 6, 1897. The officers elected on that date were: Super¬ visors, Aristide Mero (chairman), Christ Bauman and Louis E. Olson; clerk, Ernest D. Demers; assessor, Louis Gagner; treasurer, James C. McLaughlin.
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 Stanfold. 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 Stanfold.
Nobody well known was born in Stanfold itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Another post office, Standfold, 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).
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.
