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Judyville, IndianaPhoto: Huw Williams (Huwmanbeing) · Public domain
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History · Judyville

Judyville’s post office opened in 1903

Below: 2 old photos and papers and maps from 1961 on.

1903first post office
0on the National Register
0.0%homes built before 1940
2old photos & papers
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From Judyville’s archive · credits on each photo
Quick answers

How Judyville began

When was Judyville founded?

1903

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

2020 census: 38123 years
Founding year: the first Judyville post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Judyville’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenOnly 2 old photos are in the public archives. The rest are in attics and albums.
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Start Judyville’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Judyville’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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1 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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The story

How Judyville came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Judyville.

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Judyville's founder John Finley Judy, born in Ohio on 18 March 1856, arrived in Warren County in 1867 with his parents Skillman and Sarah. (The Judy surname was an anglicization of the German Tschudi.) John attended high school in Attica and afterwards taught school for several years. In 1881 he invested the money he earned from teaching into cattle, then leveraged the profits to establish himself as a farmer and an entrepreneur. The subjects of Judy's enterprises were diverse and included livestock, vehicles, farming equipment, groceries, dry goods and various supplies, blacksmithing, undertaking, grain elevators and real estate.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Judyville, 1899 to 1961

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1899In the archiveJudyville, Indiana 1899
  3. 20th century
  4. 1910In the archiveJudyville postmark
  5. 1961On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Judyville, decade by decade

2 decades in the archive, from the 1890s to the 1910s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

1890s–1910s2 items
Judyville, Indiana 18991899Judyville, Indiana 1899Judyville postmark1910Judyville postmark
1920s–1990snothing yet
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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Today1 recent
Judyville, Indiana2006Judyville, Indiana
On the map

Judyville on the map, 1961 to 1980

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

Judyville on the 1961 USGS mapJudyville on the 1980 USGS map1961West Lebanon sheet · 1:24,000

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

Then & now

Stand where they stood

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Judyville, Indiana 1899
Retake this viewJudyville, Indiana 1899, 1899

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Famous people

Famous people close to Judyville

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

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Jacob Edwin MeekerAmerican politician · b. 1878
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Jewell YoungAmerican basketball player/coach · b. 1913
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Bernard SobelAmerican playwright, drama critic, and author · b. 1887
Mary Theodosia MugNun, penwoman, biographer, historian · b. 1860
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William Lynn ParkinsonUnited States federal judge · b. 1902
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Bertha FosterFounding regent of the University of Miami · b. 1881
Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Jordan TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townLiberty Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Judyville’s history

What year was Judyville founded?

The Judyville 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 Wikimedia Commons (3), Wikipedia and U.S. Geological Survey historical maps. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.