Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 37% of U.S. towns. What drives it
Below: the census since 2000.
More historic than 37% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Warren is more historic than 37% of U.S. towns. Its share of homes from before 1940 holds the grade up; its National Register listings pull 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 Warren’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.
Founding year: our sources. 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.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Warren’s history is told.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Warren yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Warren is a town in St. Croix County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 1,733 at the 2020 census. The village of Roberts is located within the town.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 1,591 to 1,733 (+9%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Warren, cut from the printed page as they were published.
The one-half of said tax shall become due and collectable and shall be paid to the Chariton. Des Moines & Southern Railroad Company, so soon as said • company shall have built and completed the main trunk line of its" said railroad from the city of Chariton, Lucas county, Iowa, to the city of Indianola, Warren county, Iowa, by the way of, or within one half mile of the town of Ackworth, in said Warren county, and shall have built and completed a permanent depot thereon at Indianola. and also shall have built and completed a permanent depot thereon within one half mile of said town of Ackworth, and the other, or
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Other Families July, 1804 — ^Who served with distinction in the war of the Revolution, who surveyed and laid out the town of Warren in the year 1795 and whose descendants presented Crescent Park to the town of Warren."
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Warren County was named for General Joseph Warren, a distinguished and gallant soldier who lost his life at Bunker Hill while boldly defending his country's rights. His Grandfather was Peter Warren and his son Joseph was the father of General Joseph who was bom at Roxbury, Mass., in 1741.
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The first railway project that interested the people of Warren county, was an air line, proposing to cross the Mississippi at New Boston, and from thence to Council Bluffs on the Missouri river. The people not only talked about this road, but some were in favor of rendering material assistance as will be seen By the following notice: "On this 28th day of November. 1853. the petition of a large portion of the county was presented, asking that the question he submitted to a vote of the people of Warren county, Iowa, whether the county of Warren, aforesaid, will aid in the construction of the 'Philadelphia, Ft.
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.
Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Between 1,320 and 1,733 people in every census since 2000.
3 censuses, 2000–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Warren’s Wikipedia page.
Nobody well known was born in Warren itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Warren is more historic than 37% 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.
15% of Warren’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±3.9 points), against a typical 12% for a Wisconsin town; the median home was built in 1993.
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 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.
