Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: maps from 1962 on and the census since 1900.
The Struble post office opened in 1890, 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 Struble’s history is told.
Peaked at 327 in 1910; 67 people lived here in 2020.
13 censuses, 1900–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Struble’s Wikipedia page.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Struble yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Struble is a city in Plymouth County, Iowa, United States, along the West Branch of the Floyd River. The population was 67 at the time of the 2020 census.
Its first post office opened in 1890. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 78 to 67 (-14%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Struble, cut from the printed page as they were published.
When the townsite of Struble was projected he sold to the promoters of the project forty acres of his farm and the village of Struble grew up on that tract. William Mandelkow retired from farming some years before his occurring in his own home.
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
securing a start toward the purchase of a farm of one hundred and sixty acres in Grant township, upon which he made his home for five years, at the end of which time he bought the whole of: section 3 in Elgin township. ‘ He presently sold forty acres of that section to the promoters of the Struble township, the village of Struble now being located on that tract, and rented out a part of the remaining six hundred acres, he and his sons operating the remainder. On that farm William Mandelkow remained until his retirement from the activities of the farmi and removed to the village of Struble, where
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.
Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Struble. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Struble.
Struble had its own post office from 1890 to 1966.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
The Struble post office opened in 1890, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
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 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.
