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History · Lynnville

Lynnville’s post office opened in 1833, and 24% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1924 on and the census since 1900.

1833first post office
0on the National Register
24%homes built before 1940
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How Lynnville began

When was Lynnville founded?

1833

The Lynnville post office opened in 1833, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 176 in 19002020 census: 96193 years
Founding year: the first Lynnville post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Lynnville’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 Lynnville are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Deep rootsA post office since 1833: 193 years of Lynnville.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Lynnville’s history is told.

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Timeline

Lynnville, 1833 to 1924

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1833Post officeThe Lynnville post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1909Post officeThe Lynnville post office closes
  5. 1924On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
The story so far

Lynnville, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Lynnville yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Lynnville is a village in Morgan County, Illinois, United States. The population was 96 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Jacksonville Micropolitan Statistical Area.

Its first post office opened in 1833. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 117 to 96 (-18%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

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

Lynnville on the map, 1924 to 1983

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

Lynnville on the 1924 USGS mapLynnville 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 Lynnville.

People over time

Lynnville, census by census

01001900192019401960198020002020Peak: 176

Between 94 and 176 people in every census since 1900.

13 censuses, 1900–2020.

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

Places that used to be

Lost post offices

Lynnville had its own post office from 1833 to 1909.

Lynnville
1833–1909
18301930today

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Questions about Lynnville’s history

What year was Lynnville founded?

The Lynnville post office opened in 1833, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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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 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.