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History · Wyoming

13% of Wyoming’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1970 on and old-book passages.

0on the National Register
13%homes built before 1940

What stands out about Wyoming’s past

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The story so far

Wyoming, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Wyoming yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Wyoming is a town in Waupaca County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 318 at the 2020 census. The ghost town of Granite City was located in the town.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 329 to 318 (-3%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

From the old history books

What they wrote about Wyoming, 1895–1906

Passages that mention Wyoming, cut from the printed page as they were published.

nia Coal Company in Pennsylvania, and served in that capacity uninterruptedly until his death. In November, 1882. he was elected to the presidency of the Erie & Wyoming Valley Railroad Company, ami in this position he also served to the end of his life. A notable incident of his connection with rai…
Genealogical and family history of the Wyoming and Lackawanna Valleys, Pennsylvania1906 · page 191Read the page →
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nia Coal Company in Pennsylvania, and served in that capacity uninterruptedly until his death. In November, 1882. he was elected to the presidency of the Erie & Wyoming Valley Railroad Company, ami in this position he also served to the end of his life. A notable incident of his connection with railroad affairs was his designing a threecylinder locomotive engine, which he covered by

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Company, and many other local business interests. He was. during its construction, president of the Ontario. Carboiidale and Scranton Railroad ( now the Wyoming division of the Ontario and Western Railroad), president of the proposed New York. Wyoming and Western Railroad: also, of the Scranton Coa…
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Company, and many other local business interests. He was. during its construction, president of the Ontario. Carboiidale and Scranton Railroad ( now the Wyoming division of the Ontario and Western Railroad), president of the proposed New York. Wyoming and Western Railroad: also, of the Scranton Coal Company: and a dire tor in the New York. On-

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miller at Seneca Falls for one year, and later went to Oswego, where he followed the same vocation for six years. In 1844 he came to Wyoming County, and purchased fifty acres of land in the town of Perry. He has rapidly increased his landed property, and to-day is the possessor of one of the finest…
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miller at Seneca Falls for one year, and later went to Oswego, where he followed the same vocation for six years. In 1844 he came to Wyoming County, and purchased fifty acres of land in the town of Perry. He has rapidly increased his landed property, and to-day is the possessor of one of the finest farms in Wyoming County. He now lives in retire-

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necticut, March 29, 1779, continued the hotel business at Shaftsbury for forty years, during which time he made frequent trips to Cayuga and Wyoming Counties in this State, assisting the early pioneers in moving their families to their new homes. While here in 1810 he bought one hundred and sixty a…
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necticut, March 29, 1779, continued the hotel business at Shaftsbury for forty years, during which time he made frequent trips to Cayuga and Wyoming Counties in this State, assisting the early pioneers in moving their families to their new homes. While here in 1810 he bought one hundred and sixty acres of land where the village of Wyoming is now

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Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.

By decade

Wyoming, decade by decade

On the map

Wyoming on the map, 1970 to 1984

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Wyoming. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Wyoming on the 1970 USGS mapWyoming on the 1984 USGS map1970Tigerton sheet · 1:24,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Wyoming.

Famous people

Famous people close to Wyoming

Nobody well known was born in Wyoming itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Places that used to be

Old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

Old hamlets and crossroads still carry their names on the map.

Hamlets and corners on the map
Granite City
Gone or out of use
Leuthold Granite Quarrymine
1cemetery inside Wyoming
Big Falls

Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Questions about Wyoming’s history

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Where this page comes from

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 (1), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, 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.