Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: maps from 1985 on and the census since 1980.
The Warrens post office opened in 1892, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Warren's Mills (1871), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
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 Warrens’s history is told.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Warrens yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Warrens is a village in Monroe County, Wisconsin, United States off I-94. The population was 544 at the 2020 census.
Its first post office opened in 1892. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 363 to 544 (+50%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Warrens, cut from the printed page as they were published.
In 1867 Warren and Gamble built the sawmill at the place which is now the village of Warrens, and there has been several stationary and portable sawmills located in the town for a portion of the time, but only one of early date, which became established as a permanent business, is the George Warren Company, of Warrens, which conducted a sawmill business for a great many years, and it has now become a mill for finishing lumber ready for the builder. This firm has grown to such proportions that they now
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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.
The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Warrens.
1985Black River Falls sheet · 1:100,000U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Warrens.
Between 286 and 544 people in every census since 1980.
5 censuses, 1980–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Warrens’ Wikipedia page.
Nobody well known was born in Warrens itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Warrens’s post office has been open since 1892. Another post office, Warren's Mills, 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).
The Warrens post office opened in 1892, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
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 Wikimedia Commons (6), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), 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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