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History · Belvue

Belvue’s post office opened in 1871, and 17% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1953 on and the census since 1920.

1871first post office
0on the National Register
17%homes built before 1940
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How Belvue began

When was Belvue founded?

1871

The Belvue post office opened in 1871, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 199 in 19202020 census: 177155 years
Founding year: the first Belvue post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Belvue’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 Belvue are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Belvue’s history is told.

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The story

How Belvue came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Belvue.

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Belvue was laid out in 1871. The first post office in Belvue was established in May 1871.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

By decade

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On the map

Belvue on the map, 1953 to 1978

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

Belvue on the 1953 USGS mapBelvue on the 1978 USGS map1953Belvue 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 Belvue.

People over time

Belvue, census by census

0100200192019401960198020002020Peak: 228

Between 161 and 228 people in every census since 1920.

11 censuses, 1920–2020.

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

Questions about Belvue’s history

What year was Belvue founded?

The Belvue post office opened in 1871, 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, 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.