Visual: GIF shows how cities incorporated throughout the USA’s history. Cool.

The author (GrzegorzusLudi) of this research/gif stated that he/she:

“…created a script searching over wikipedia sites. I was se(a)rching for sections with words “Settled”, “Founded”, “Incorporated”, etc. and dates after them…”

Cool stuff either way. Kudos.

Foundation of ~2500 american cities/towns on an animated map [OC] from dataisbeautiful