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History · Merino

Merino’s post office opened in 1883, and 30% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1913 on and the census since 1920.

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How Merino began

When was Merino founded?

1883

The Merino post office opened in 1883, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 263 in 19202020 census: 281143 years
Founding year: the first Merino post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Merino’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 Merino are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Merino’s history is told.

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The story so far

Merino, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Merino yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

The Town of Merino is a Statutory Town in Logan County, Colorado, United States. The town population was 281 at the 2020 United States census. The town was named for the merino sheep which grazed there.

Its first post office opened in 1883. Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 284 in 2010, 281 in 2020.

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

Merino, 1883 to 1951

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1883Post officeThe Merino post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1913Born hereRalph Edwards is born here
  5. 1951On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Merino, decade by decade

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On the map

Merino on the map in 1951

The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Merino.

Merino on the 1951 USGS map1951Merino 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 Merino.

Every building

Merino, building by building, 1913–1921

Fire insurance maps drew every building, what it was made of and what it was used for, so insurers could price the risk of fire. Pick a year, then a sheet.

Merino fire insurance map, 1913, sheet 11913Sheet 1 of 1
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Sanborn Map Company, via the Library of Congress. Editions published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.

People over time

Merino, census by census

0100200300192019401960198020002020Peak: 284

Between 209 and 284 people in every census since 1920.

11 censuses, 1920–2020.

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

Questions about Merino’s history

What year was Merino founded?

The Merino post office opened in 1883, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

Memory lane

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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 Wikimedia Commons (2), Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and Sanborn fire insurance maps (Library of Congress). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.