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History · Reddick

Reddick’s post office opened in 1880, and 49% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1901 on and the census since 1900.

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49%homes built before 1940
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How Reddick began

When was Reddick founded?

1880

The Reddick post office opened in 1880, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 261 in 19002020 census: 199146 years
Founding year: the first Reddick post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Reddick’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 Reddick are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Reddick’s homes were built before 1942.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Reddick’s history is told.

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The story

How Reddick came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Reddick.

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Originally known as Reddick Station, the village of Reddick was platted in 1880 and incorporated in 1890 with a population of 400. By 1895, business enterprises included a tile factory, two grain elevators, a millinery and dressmaker shop, a general store, a livery stable, two hotels, lumber and coal businesses, a barber shop, blacksmith, and others. All of the land around Reddick was plotted into sections, divided into quarter sections equaling 160 acres (65 ha) each, and usually tilled by one family.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Reddick, 1880 to 1985

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1880Post officeThe Reddick post office opens
  3. 1891Born hereFred Kluckhohn is born here
  4. 20th century
  5. 1985On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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No old photos in the archives yet

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

Reddick on the map, 1985 to 1991

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

Reddick on the 1985 USGS mapReddick on the 1991 USGS map1985Ottawa sheet · 1:100,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Reddick.

Every building

Reddick, building by building, 1901

Fire insurance maps drew every building, what it was made of and what it was used for, so insurers could price the risk of fire. Pick a sheet.

Reddick fire insurance map, 1901, sheet 11901Sheet 1 of 1
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Sanborn Map Company, via the Library of Congress. Editions published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.

People over time

Reddick, census by census

01002003001900192019401960198020002020Peak: 288

Between 163 and 288 people in every census since 1900.

13 censuses, 1900–2020.

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

Questions about Reddick’s history

What year was Reddick founded?

The Reddick post office opened in 1880, 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), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and Sanborn fire insurance maps (Library of Congress). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.