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History · Alsey

Alsey’s post office opened in 1872, and 31% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1924 on and the census since 1940.

1872first post office
0on the National Register
31%homes built before 1940
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How Alsey began

When was Alsey founded?

1872

The Alsey post office opened in 1872, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 290 in 19402020 census: 195154 years
Founding year: the first Alsey post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Alsey’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 Alsey are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Alsey’s homes were built before 1949.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Alsey’s history is told.

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The story

How Alsey came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Alsey.

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Alsey was originally called Smithfield, and under the latter name was laid out in 1870 by Alsey R. Smith, and named for him. A post office called Alsey has been in operation since 1872.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

By decade

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Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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On the map

Alsey on the map, 1924 to 1983

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Alsey. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Alsey on the 1924 USGS mapAlsey on the 1983 USGS map1924Winchester 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 Alsey.

People over time

Alsey, census by census

010020030019401960198020002020Peak: 318

Between 195 and 318 people in every census since 1940.

9 censuses, 1940–2020.

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

Questions about Alsey’s history

What year was Alsey founded?

The Alsey post office opened in 1872, 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 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.