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Seibert’s post office opened in 1888, and 26% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1980 on and the census since 1920.

1888first post office
0on the National Register
26%homes built before 1940
1famous people
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How Seibert began

When was Seibert founded?

1888

The Seibert post office opened in 1888, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 311 in 19202020 census: 172138 years
Founding year: the first Seibert post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Seibert’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 Seibert 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 Seibert’s history is told.

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The story

How Seibert came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Seibert.

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A post office called Seibert has been in operation since 1888. The community was named after Henry Seibert, a railroad agent.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Seibert, 1888 to 1980

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1888Post officeThe Seibert post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1912Born hereWilbur White is born here
  5. 1980On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Seibert, decade by decade

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On the map

Seibert on the map in 1980

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

Seibert on the 1980 USGS map1980Seibert 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 Seibert.

People over time

Seibert, census by census

0100200300192019401960198020002020Peak: 346

Between 172 and 346 people in every census since 1920.

11 censuses, 1920–2020.

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

Questions about Seibert’s history

What year was Seibert founded?

The Seibert post office opened in 1888, 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 Wikimedia Commons (2), Wikipedia, 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) 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.