Various sources and accounts have referred to Neatsville as a
village, as a
postal village, as a
hamlet, and as a
town at different times in its history.{{efn|"The command took a roundabout road before getting to Neatsville. We came on a much nearer and better road. {Neatsville is a small village of not much importance.}"}} The community was settled in the early 1800s by the Neat family, with Randolph Neat being the first to acquire land there. As it expanded, the community grew to encompass several stores, a hotel, a doctor's office, mills, a sawmill, distilleries, a saloon, a salt works, a
cooper shop, a
carding machine, and a
Masonic Lodge. It was incorporated as a town on February 23, 1847. Its post office was established on March 13, 1844, and closed in 1886. In 1848 the town's population was estimated to be around 50, and in 1876 the town's population was estimated at 60. The Masonic Lodge was relocated to
Pellyton in 1917.
Relocations Sometime between 1901 and 1902, a significant flood devastated the town, necessitating its relocation from the north bank to the south bank of the
Green River. At that time, the former location was abandoned. Erosion had occurred in the foundations of the buildings in the former location due to the flooding.A 1916 local account of the town's former site after the flooding characterized it as "nearly obliterated" and "in ruins". Neatsville was later relocated to its present location sometime in the 1960s, when the Green River was
impounded to enable the creation of the
Green River Reservoir. ==Notes==