Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: maps from 1963 on and the census since 1970.
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 Weston’s history is told.
From Wikipedia’s history of Weston.
Initially part of the Town of Weston, the village was founded on March 11, 1996, as a way to secure its borders from neighboring communities. Two-thirds of the original town were split off to form the new village of the same name.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Weston, cut from the printed page as they were published.
This town was set off from the town of Weston as a separate town January 6, 1905, to consist of all of township 28, north of range 6 east, lying west of the Wisconsin river. The town when set ofT by the county board on that date was given the name of "Erickson," from George Erickson, who was afterwards elected as the first chainnan of said town. This act of the county board was ratified and confirmed by the Legislature in the session of 1905, but the name of the town was changed to "Flieth."
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The schoolhouse is a large, solid brick building recently erected at a cost of $20,000. The village and part of the town of Weston form a joint district. It is a seven-department state graded school, where instruction is given up to and including the ninth grade. The principal of the school is A. C.
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.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Weston. 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 Weston.
Grew from 3,375 people in 1970 to 15,723 in 2020, 4 times over.
6 censuses, 1970–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Weston’s Wikipedia page.
Nobody well known was born in Weston 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.
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 (3), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, 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.
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