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History · St. Florian

St. Florian’s post office opened in 1879

Most of St. Florian was built recently: 6% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1989. Below: maps from 1916 on and the census since 1880.

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How St. Florian began

When was St. Florian founded?

1879

The St. Florian post office opened in 1879, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Saint Florian (1879), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

First census: 135 in 18802020 census: 584147 years
Founding year: the first St. Florian post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about St. Florian’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of St. Florian are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The story

How St. Florian came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of St. Florian.

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The area was first called Wilson Stand, for John and Matthew Wilson, the original owners of the town site. The present community was founded in the 1870s by a colony of Germans who named the town after Saint Florian. A post office was established at St. Florian in 1879, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1904. The town incorporated at some point in the 1970s, as cited by the 1980 U.S. Census.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

St. Florian, 1879 to 1916

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1879Post officeThe Saint Florian post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1904Post officeThe Saint Florian post office closes
  5. 1916On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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On the map

St. Florian on the map, 1916 to 1986

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of St. Florian. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

St. Florian on the 1916 USGS mapSt. Florian on the 1986 USGS map1916Muscle Shoals sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of St. Florian.

People over time

St. Florian, census by census

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Grew from 135 people in 1880 to 584 in 2020, 4 times over.

7 censuses, 1880–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on St. Florian’s Wikipedia page.

Famous people

Famous people close to St. Florian

Nobody well known was born in St. Florian itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Mitch McConnellAmerican politician and lawyer · b. 1942
Michael JeterAmerican actor · b. 1952
Fred ThompsonAmerican politician and actor · b. 1942
Percy SledgeAmerican singer · b. 1940
Sam PhillipsAmerican businessman, record executive, record … · b. 1923
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Sonequa Martin-GreenAmerican actress · b. 1985
Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners and burying grounds

Another post office, Saint Florian, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Hamlets and corners on the map
Saint Florian
1cemetery inside St. Florian
Oak Hill

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

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Questions about St. Florian’s history

What year was St. Florian founded?

The St. Florian post office opened in 1879, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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Where this page comes from

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). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.