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History · Fults

Fults’ post office opened in 1903, and 46% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1915 on and the census since 1940.

1903first post office
0on the National Register
46%homes built before 1940
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How Fults began

When was Fults founded?

1903

The Fults post office opened in 1903, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 88 in 19402020 census: 28123 years
Founding year: the first Fults post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Fults’ 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 Fults are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Boom and bustPeaked at 120 in 1950; 28 people lived here in 2020.On the map since 19154 editions of the USGS map, 1915 to 1993. Watch Fults change.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Fults’s history is told.

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People over time

Fults, census by census

010019401960198020002020Peak: 120

Peaked at 120 in 1950; 28 people lived here in 2020.

9 censuses, 1940–2020.

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

On the map

Fults on the map, 1915 to 1993

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

Fults on the 1915 USGS mapFults on the 1940 USGS mapFults on the 1970 USGS mapFults on the 1993 USGS map1915Renault 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 Fults.

The story

How Fults came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Fults.

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The village was named after Jacob Fults, born in Pennsylvania in 1793 to German immigrants. Fults, after leaving the service of the United States during the War of 1812 in 1817, settled on Moredock Lake. He then moved to the Renault precinct, first up Braun's Hollow, then in 1829 to the settlement known at the time as "Braunsberg", which would eventually take his name, until his death in 1841.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Fults, 1903 to 1950

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1903Post officeThe Fults post office opens
  3. 1915On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  4. 1950CensusPopulation peaks at 120
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Famous people

Famous people close to Fults

Nobody well known was born in Fults itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Bill BradleyAmerican basketball player and politician · b. 1943
Jay Nixon55th Governor of Missouri · b. 1956
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Frank WilcoxAmerican actor · b. 1907
Tom SantschiAmerican actor · b. 1878
Augustus C. DodgeAmerican politician · b. 1812
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Nikki ZiegelmeyerAmerican short track speed skater · b. 1975

Questions about Fults’ history

What year was Fults founded?

The Fults post office opened in 1903, 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.