https://vividmaps.com/us-oldest-city/ Maps that explain the World Sun, 05 Oct 2025 21:36:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://vividmaps.com/us-oldest-city/#comment-38313 Sun, 05 Oct 2025 21:36:07 +0000 https://vividmaps.com/?p=29751#comment-38313 Might want to look further into Texas. Presido dates back to the mid 1500s. One of the oldest European settlements in the US.

]]> https://vividmaps.com/us-oldest-city/#comment-35940 Tue, 19 Aug 2025 17:54:34 +0000 https://vividmaps.com/?p=29751#comment-35940 Green Bay is the oldest city in the NFL. Really. Boston and N.Y.’s teams moved out of those cities long ago. Baltimore was “incorporated” on paper in London a few years before Green Bay was settled, but nobody actually moved there for many years.

]]> https://vividmaps.com/us-oldest-city/#comment-9100 Tue, 18 Apr 2023 20:21:11 +0000 https://vividmaps.com/?p=29751#comment-9100 Newport Rhode Island was incorporated in 1639.

]]> https://vividmaps.com/us-oldest-city/#comment-7969 Sun, 12 Mar 2023 20:44:34 +0000 https://vividmaps.com/?p=29751#comment-7969 Chester, PA is the oldest city in Pennsylvania NOT Philadelphia. Penn landed there first.

]]> https://vividmaps.com/us-oldest-city/#comment-4638 Sat, 10 Dec 2022 17:36:19 +0000 https://vividmaps.com/?p=29751#comment-4638 The oldest USA city is San Juan PR established in 1493

]]> https://vividmaps.com/us-oldest-city/#comment-3436 Sun, 25 Sep 2022 14:41:38 +0000 https://vividmaps.com/?p=29751#comment-3436 Est.1683-Presidio Texas on the Rio Grande borders Ojinaga Mexico, as Cabeza de Vaca came through these parts in 1535. This land has been occupied for over 2,000 years if not longer.

]]> https://vividmaps.com/us-oldest-city/#comment-3323 Sat, 10 Sep 2022 02:04:51 +0000 https://vividmaps.com/?p=29751#comment-3323 You forgot to say anything about Cahokia, a city by any definition—from 1000 years ago, well before the start of European contact/genocide.

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