Ivor’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold only 2 old photos of Ivor. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusIvor is an incorporated town in Southampton County, Virginia, United States. It is twenty-three miles northwest of Suffolk. As of the 2020 census, Ivor had a population of 312.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 339 to 312 (-8%). Half of its homes were built before 1958.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Ivor yet — the old photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Intro from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Population and housing: U.S. Census Bureau.
Start Ivor’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Ivor’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🗓️Date a photo2 archive items have no date+2 🔁Retake an old viewBinford House: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Ivor
See all 2 →Ivor, decade by decade
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Nothing in Ivor is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Ivor has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Joseph Jordan House in Smithfield, 8.8 miles away.
Ivor and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Binford House and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (2) and the Library of Congress (2). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.