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History · Cedar Point

Cedar Point’s post office opened in 1907, and 34% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1893 on and the census since 1910.

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34%homes built before 1940
1famous people
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How Cedar Point began

When was Cedar Point founded?

1907

The Cedar Point post office opened in 1907, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 545 in 19102020 census: 266119 years
Founding year: the first Cedar Point post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Cedar Point’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 Cedar Point are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.On the map since 18933 editions of the USGS map, 1893 to 1947. Watch Cedar Point change.Boom and bustPeaked at 686 in 1920; 266 people lived here in 2020.Old housesHalf of Cedar Point’s homes were built before 1952.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Cedar Point’s history is told.

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On the map

Cedar Point on the map, 1893 to 1947

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

Cedar Point on the 1893 USGS mapCedar Point on the 1911 USGS mapCedar Point on the 1947 USGS map1893La Salle 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 Cedar Point.

People over time

Cedar Point, census by census

0100200300400500600700192019401960198020002020Peak: 686

Peaked at 686 in 1920; 266 people lived here in 2020.

12 censuses, 1910–2020.

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

The story

How Cedar Point came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Cedar Point.

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The LaSalle Carbon Coal Company sunk the Number 5 Mine in 1906. The village was incorporated in 1922. The mine closed in 1924.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Cedar Point, 1893 to 1939

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1893On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  3. 20th century
  4. 1907Post officeThe Cedar Point post office opens
  5. 1920CensusPopulation peaks at 686
  6. 1939Born hereJoe Rutgens is born here
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Questions about Cedar Point’s history

What year was Cedar Point founded?

The Cedar Point post office opened in 1907, 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, 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) 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.