The story
Read it all →How Ivey came to be
From Wikipedia’s history of Ivey.
The community was named after James Ivey. The Georgia General Assembly incorporated Ivey in 1950.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
C−History
History · Ivey
Ivey’s post office opened in 1884
More historic than 20% of U.S. towns. What drives it
Most of Ivey was built recently: 5% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1990. Below: maps from 1956 on and the census since 1950.
1884first post office
0on the National Register
5%homes built before 1940
Quick answers
How Ivey began
When was Ivey founded?
1884
The Ivey post office opened in 1884, the earliest record of the town by name.
First census: 46 in 19502020 census: 1,037142 years
How historic is Ivey?
C−
What drives the grade ↓More historic than 20% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
Founding year: the first Ivey post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓
History grade
What drives Ivey’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Ivey is more historic than 20% of U.S. towns. Its age holds the grade up; its National Register listings pull it down.
C−
HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Ivey’s overall grade.
Founding era1884, from the first post office: founded 1850–1899, an older era than 37% of U.S. townsC+Homes built before 19405.3% of homes (±7.2) · typical GA town 3.8% · U.S. 8.4%CNational RegisterNo listings counted · typical GA town 10.0 per 10,000 · U.S. 2.4C−
All U.S. towns we grade (21,289)Ahead of 20%
NewerOlder
Georgia towns list more on the Register than most of the country (a typical Georgia town has 10.0 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Ivey’s 0.0 sits below most of its state (16% of Georgia 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 is a Census survey estimate (±7.2 points). 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 Ivey’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
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Start Ivey’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Ivey’s history is told.
Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.Timeline
Ivey, 1884 to 1956
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
- 19th century
- 1884Post officeThe Ivey post office opens
- 20th century
- 1947Post officeThe Ivey post office closes
- 1956
On 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.
Be the first to add onePhotograph a print flat, in daylight, no flash.
Add from your albumOn the map
Ivey on the map, 1956 to 1985
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Ivey. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1956Gordon sheet · 1:62,500U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Ivey.
People over time
Ivey, census by census
Between 46 and 1,100 people in every census since 1950.
8 censuses, 1950–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Ivey’s Wikipedia page.
Places that used to be
Lost post offices and burying grounds
Ivey had its own post office from 1884 to 1947.
Ivey
18801950today
1cemetery inside Ivey
Ivey Baptist
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.
Questions about Ivey’s history
What year was Ivey founded?
The Ivey post office opened in 1884, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
How does Ivey rank for history?
Ivey is more historic than 20% of U.S. towns. 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 Ivey?
5% of Ivey’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±7.2 points), against a typical 3.8% for a Georgia town; the median home was built in 1990.
Memory lane
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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Sources
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).
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.