Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Most of Wheatland was built recently: 8% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1995. Below: maps from 1929 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 Wheatland’s history is told.
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 Wheatland yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Wheatland is a town in Vernon County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 588 at the 2020 census. The unincorporated communities of Red Mound and Victory are located in Wheatland.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 561 to 588 (+5%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Wheatland, cut from the printed page as they were published.
In 1852 he came to the town of Wheatland, and assisted in laying out the village of Victory, as will appear in the history of the town of Wheatland. He was the first merchant in the village.
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sin and located at Lancaster, Grant county. He had built the first house in the present village of Lancaster, two years previous, in 1838. In 1852 he came to the town of Wheatland, and assisted in laying out the village of Victory, as will appear in the history of that town. He was the first man who sold goodsin that village, and has been a resident of Vernon county since
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Genoa, forming the Bad Ax proper, which thence flows westerly into the Mississippi on section 16, in Genoa. Battle creek rises on section 2, town of Wheatland, runs southwesterly and flows into Winnebago slough. Sloughs are arms of the main river; some have currents while others arc simply formed of back water. The term coolie is still used in this vicinity for valley.
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In 1852 he came to the town of Wheatland, and assisted in laying out the village of Victory, as will appear in the history of the town of Wiieatland. He was the first merchant in the village.
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.
Weddings 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 Wheatland. 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 Wheatland.
Nobody well known was born in Wheatland itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
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.
