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Agenda’s post office opened in 1874, and 73% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1893 on and the census since 1920.

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How Agenda began

When was Agenda founded?

1874

The Agenda post office opened in 1874, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 239 in 19202020 census: 47152 years
Founding year: the first Agenda post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

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A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Agenda are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.On the map since 18933 editions of the USGS map, 1893 to 1985. Watch Agenda change.Old housesHalf of Agenda’s homes were built before 1938.
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On the map

Agenda on the map, 1893 to 1985

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

Agenda on the 1893 USGS mapAgenda on the 1965 USGS mapAgenda on the 1985 USGS map1893Washington sheet · 1:125,000

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

The story

How Agenda came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Agenda.

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Agenda (formerly Neva) was laid out in 1887 on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad line. The name Agenda derives from Latin meaning "what ought to be done".

The first house in Agenda was erected by Joseph Cox in 1887. In the early 1900s, it had a money order post office with one rural delivery route, express and telegraph offices, several general stores and other business establishments, a bank, a grain elevator, and in 1910 reported a population of 200.

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From the old history books

What they wrote about Agenda in 1901

Passages that mention Agenda, cut from the printed page as they were published.

Neva is the name of the town and Agenda the name of the railroad station and postoffice. This town was laid out in 1887. The first building erected on the townsite other than railroad buildings was a store 28x50 feet, built by Joseph Cox in the fall of 1887. This building was rented
A history of Republic county, Kansas1901 · page 192Read the page →
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Neva is the name of the town and Agenda the name of the railroad station and postoffice. This town was laid out in 1887. The first building erected on the townsite other than railroad buildings was a store 28x50 feet, built by Joseph Cox in the fall of 1887. This building was rented

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Neva is the name of the town and Agenda the name of the railroad station and postoffice. This town was laid out in 1887. The first building erected on the townsite other than railroad buildings was a store 28x50 feet, built by Joseph Cox in the fall of 1887. This building was rented
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Neva is the name of the town and Agenda the name of the railroad station and postoffice. This town was laid out in 1887. The first building erected on the townsite other than railroad buildings was a store 28x50 feet, built by Joseph Cox in the fall of 1887. This building was rented

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at seven in the evening. This line has two branches, one from Kansas City enters the county in Elk Creek township, on the SE i of section 33, runs northwest to Belleville; the stations on this branch are Agenda and Cuba. The other enters the county on section 12, in Albion township; runs southwest …
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at seven in the evening. This line has two branches, one from Kansas City enters the county in Elk Creek township, on the SE i of section 33, runs northwest to Belleville; the stations on this branch are Agenda and Cuba. The other enters the county on section 12, in Albion township; runs southwest to Belleville, where the two unite and form the main line to Denver. The stations on this line are Narka and Munden. On the Main line west the sta-

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at seven in the evening. This line has two branches, one from Kansas City enters the county in Elk Creek townshij), on the SE \ of section 33, runs northwest to Belleville; the stations on this branch are Agenda and Cuba. The other enters the county on section 12, in Albion township; runs southwest…
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at seven in the evening. This line has two branches, one from Kansas City enters the county in Elk Creek townshij), on the SE \ of section 33, runs northwest to Belleville; the stations on this branch are Agenda and Cuba. The other enters the county on section 12, in Albion township; runs southwest to Belleville, where the two unite and form the main line to Denver. The stations on this Une are Narka and Munden. On the Main line west the sta-

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Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.

Timeline

Agenda, 1874 to 1913

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1874Post officeThe Agenda post office opens
  3. 1893On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  4. 20th century
  5. 1903Born hereHerb Bradley is born here
  6. 1913Born herePaul E. Trimble is born here
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People over time

Agenda, census by census

0100200192019401960198020002020Peak: 239

Between 47 and 239 people in every census since 1920.

11 censuses, 1920–2020.

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

Famous people

2 famous people were born in Agenda

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Herb BradleyAmerican baseball player · b. 1903
Paul E. TrimbleAmerican Coast Guard admiral · b. 1913

Questions about Agenda’s history

What year was Agenda founded?

The Agenda post office opened in 1874, 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 old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.