18% of Greeley County’s homes were built before 1940
More historic than 67% of U.S. towns. What drives it
Its Register listing is the Greeley County Courthouse. Below: maps from 1970 on.
About Greeley County’s history
How historic is Greeley County?
More historic than 67% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
What drives Greeley County’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Greeley County is more historic than 67% of U.S. towns. All 2 inputs are above most U.S. towns; its share of homes from before 1940 ranks highest and its National Register listings lowest.
Kansas towns list more on the Register than most of the country (a typical Kansas town has 5.1 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Greeley County’s 8.2 sits near the middle of its state (59% of Kansas towns have fewer) while its 1 listings outnumber those of 51% of U.S. towns.
Founding year: our sources. Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →
What stands out about Greeley County’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Start Greeley County’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Greeley County’s history is told.
Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds
Three other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Greeley County, 1886 to 1970
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
- 19th century
- 1886Post officeThe Hancock post office opens
- 1886Post officeThe Tribune post office opens
- 1888Post officeThe Astor post office opens
- 1889Post officeThe Hancock post office closes
- 1890
BuiltGreeley County Courthouse is built - 1896Post officeThe Astor post office closes
- 20th century
- 1970
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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.
Greeley County on the map, 1970 to 1985
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Greeley County. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1970Tribune sheet · 1:24,000U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Greeley County.
1 historic place in Greeley County
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
History across the town line
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Questions about Greeley County’s history
How does Greeley County rank for history?
Greeley County is more historic than 67% of U.S. towns. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
What is on the National Register in Greeley County?
One place: the Greeley County Courthouse (listed 1976).
How old are the homes in Greeley County?
18% of Greeley County’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±5.1 points), against a typical 10% for a Kansas town; the median home was built in 1965.
Memory lane
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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).
From the National Register of Historic Places (1), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, 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.