Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Its Register listing is the Modale School and Masonic Hall. Below: maps from 1970 on and the census since 1890.
The Modale post office opened in 1858, the earliest record of the town by name.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Modale’s history is told.
Peaked at 387 in 1910; 273 people lived here in 2020.
14 censuses, 1890–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Modale’s Wikipedia page.
From Wikipedia’s history of Modale.
Modale was originally called Martinsdale, and under the latter name was laid out in 1872 by Benjamin Martin, and named for him. The present name of Modale, so named from the city's setting in a dale near the Missouri River, was adopted when a railroad depot was first built.
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Passages that mention Modale, cut from the printed page as they were published.
The population of the township, including the village of Modale, in 1885, was seven hundred and eighty-six; in 1890 it was placed al seven hundred and nineteen, and in 1910 (last census) it is given as eight hundred and thirty, and this included the town of Modale with its three hundred and eighty-seven inhabitants.
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Hannah Beebee platted land adjoining it and named it from a post-office which had been established a decade or more previ¬ ous to that date, known as Modale. The old post-office had been kept at the house of Stephen Hester. Its name came through an accident. In sending to the department a petition for the office, the
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Mr. Brown assessed his township three times and the town of Modale five times. He has held the office of Township Trustee three terms; was road commis¬ sioner one term ; Justice of the Peace two years, and has been School Treasurer five years for the Independent District of Modale.
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account of which "paper town'' is given in the miscellaneous items chapter with the balance of the village platlings of Harrison county, and Modale, the history of which here follows: Modale is an incorporated town situated in section 30, township 79, range 44, in the southern part of Taylor township, and is a station of considerable commercial importance on the line of the Sioux City & Pacific (Northwestern) railroad.
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Modale.
1970Modale sheet · 1:24,000U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Modale.
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.
The Modale post office opened in 1858, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
One place: the Modale School and Masonic Hall (listed 2014).
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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), the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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