Its Register listings are the Hotel Wolf, the Hugus Hardware and the Saratoga Masonic Hall. Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1907 on, and the census since 1910.
Founding year: the first Saratoga post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).
History grade
What drives Saratoga’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Saratoga is more historic than 47% of U.S. towns. Its National Register listings hold the grade up; its age pulls it down.
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HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Saratoga’s overall grade.
Wyoming towns list more on the Register than most of the country (a typical Wyoming town has 25.1 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Saratoga’s 17.2 sits near the middle of its state (54% of Wyoming towns have fewer) while its 3 listings outnumber those of 65% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from C to B. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±6.3 points). The founding year is the first post office, not a stated founding date.
Founding year: the first post office (other dates in Quick answers). 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 →
What stands out about Saratoga’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Peaked at 2,410 in 1980; 1,702 people lived here in 2020.
12 censuses, 1910–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Saratoga’s Wikipedia page.
The story so far
Saratoga, in brief
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Saratoga yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Saratoga is a town in Carbon County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 1,702 at the 2020 census. Saratoga is the home of the Steinley Cup microbrew festival and competition, usually held in August at Veterans Island Park, a playground and picnic facility on a small island in the North Platte River, which is designated a Blue Ribbon Stream by the Wyoming Game and Fish Department. Saratoga also has a public pool heated by a hot spring. Its two largest employers are the United States Forest Service and Carbon County School District No. 2, both public sector employers. The town's motto is "Where The Trout Leap In Main Street." The local newspaper is the Saratoga Sun.
Its first post office opened in 1884. Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 1,690 in 2010, 1,702 in 2020.
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Timeline
Saratoga, 1884 to 1980
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings 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 Saratoga. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1939Saratoga sheet · 1:125,000
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Saratoga.
Every building
Saratoga, building by building, 1907–1912
Fire insurance maps drew every building, what it was made of and what it was used for, so insurers could price the risk of fire. Pick a year, then a sheet.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Questions about Saratoga’s history
What year was Saratoga founded?
The Saratoga post office opened in 1884, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
How does Saratoga rank for history?
Saratoga is more historic than 47% 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.
What is on the National Register in Saratoga?
Three places: the Hotel Wolf (listed 1974), the Hugus Hardware (1984) and the Saratoga Masonic Hall (1978).
How old are the homes in Saratoga?
10% of Saratoga’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±6.3 points), against a typical 12% for a Wyoming town; the median home was built in 1976.
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 Wikimedia Commons (10), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (3), Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, 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 Sanborn fire insurance maps (Library of Congress). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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