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History · Cathedral

Cathedral’s post office opened in 1898, and 64% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1963 on.

1898first post office
0on the National Register
64%homes built before 1940
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How Cathedral began

When was Cathedral founded?

1898

The Cathedral post office opened in 1898, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 15128 years
Founding year: the first Cathedral post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Cathedral’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 Cathedral are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Cathedral’s homes were built before 1938.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Cathedral’s history is told.

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The story

How Cathedral came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Cathedral.

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The Cathedral, Colorado, post office operated from July 18, 1898, until September 30, 1921. The Powderhorn, Colorado, post office (Zip Code 81243) now serves the area.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Cathedral, 1898 to 1963

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1898Post officeThe Cathedral post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1921Post officeThe Cathedral post office closes
  5. 1963On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

No old photos in the archives yet

Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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On the map

Cathedral on the map, 1963 to 2001

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

Cathedral on the 1963 USGS mapCathedral on the 1983 USGS mapCathedral on the 2001 USGS map1963Mineral Mountain sheet · 1:24,000

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

Famous people

Famous people close to Cathedral

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

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Patricia ElliottAmerican actress, singer · b. 1938
Donna AndersonAmerican actress · b. 1939
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Aaron SimpsonAmerican sport wrestler and martial artist · b. 1974
Charles Jasper BellAmerican politician · b. 1885
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Irene Aloha WrightAmerican historian · b. 1879
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Ila Mae McAfeeAmerican painter · b. 1897
Places that used to be

Lost post offices

Cathedral had its own post office from 1898 to 1921.

Cathedral
1898–1921
18901960today

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

Questions about Cathedral’s history

What year was Cathedral founded?

The Cathedral post office opened in 1898, 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, 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.