Founding year: the first Lealman post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).
History grade
What drives Lealman’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Lealman is more historic than 18% of U.S. towns, #242 of 638 in Florida. Its age holds the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls it down.
C−
HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Lealman’s overall grade.
Few Florida towns list much on the Register (a typical Florida town has 0.0 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Lealman’s 0.0 sits below most of its state (33% of Florida towns have fewer) while its 0 listings outnumber those of 23% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from D to C. The pre-1940 share (±1.2 points) is firm at this size. The founding year is the first post office, not a stated founding date.
Founding year: the first post office (other dates in Quick answers). Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →
What stands out about Lealman’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Lealman. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1921St Petersburg 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 Lealman.
The story so far
Lealman, in brief
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Lealman yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Lealman, known as East Lealman until 2010, is a census-designated place (CDP) in Pinellas County, Florida, United States. As of the 2020 census, Lealman had a population of 21,189. Prior to 2010, Lealman was part of a larger CDP named West and East Lealman. In 2015, the Pinellas County Board of County Commissioners created the Lealman Community Redevelopment Area (CRA), the first redevelopment area in unincorporated Pinellas County.
Its first post office opened in 1889. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 19,879 to 21,189 (+7%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Timeline
Lealman, 1889 to 1921
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
The Lealman post office opened in 1889, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
How does Lealman rank for history?
Lealman is more historic than 18% of U.S. towns, #242 of 638 in Florida. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
How old are the homes in Lealman?
2% of Lealman’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±1.2 points), against a typical 0.6% for a Florida town; the median home was built in 1968.
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).
From 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.
