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History · Uniondale

Uniondale’s post office opened in 1886, and 50% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1962 on and the census since 1910.

1886first post office
0on the National Register
50%homes built before 1940
1famous people
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How Uniondale began

When was Uniondale founded?

1886

The Uniondale post office opened in 1886, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 189 in 19102020 census: 271140 years
Founding year: the first Uniondale post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Uniondale’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 Uniondale are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Uniondale’s homes were built before 1938.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Uniondale’s history is told.

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The story

How Uniondale came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Uniondale.

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Uniondale was surveyed and platted in 1882 by George C. Ditzler as a station along the Chicago and Atlantic Railway. Henry W. Lipkey and Ditzler founded Uniondale in 1882. At one point, the largest sawmill in Wells County was located in Uniondale.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Uniondale, 1886 to 1962

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1886Post officeThe Uniondale post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1931Born hereMaurice Fisher is born here
  5. 1962On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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

Uniondale on the map, 1962 to 1988

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

Uniondale on the 1962 USGS mapUniondale on the 1988 USGS map1962Uniondale 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 Uniondale.

People over time

Uniondale, census by census

0100200300192019401960198020002020Peak: 349

Between 189 and 349 people in every census since 1910.

12 censuses, 1910–2020.

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

Questions about Uniondale’s history

What year was Uniondale founded?

The Uniondale post office opened in 1886, 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.