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History · Blandville

Blandville’s post office opened in 1842, and 12% of its homes were built before 1940

1 place in town is on the National Register, among them a historic district with 2 buildings. Below: maps from 1951 on.

1842first post office
1on the National Register
12%homes built before 1940
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How Blandville began

When was Blandville founded?

1842

The Blandville post office opened in 1842, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Holloway (1901), opened inside today’s city and later closed.

2020 census: 73184 years
Founding year: the first Blandville post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Blandville’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 Blandville are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Deep rootsA post office since 1842: 184 years of Blandville.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Blandville’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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Timeline

Blandville, 1842 to 1951

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1842Post officeThe Blandville post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1901Post officeThe Holloway post office opens
  5. 1927Post officeThe Holloway post office closes
  6. 1951On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
The story so far

Blandville, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Blandville yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Blandville is an inactive home rule-class city in Ballard County, Kentucky, in the United States. It was founded in 1842 and named for Captain Bland Ballard, a hero of the War of 1812. It was formally incorporated by the state assembly in 1845. Blandville was the seat of Ballard County from 1842 to 1881, when the seat was moved to Wickliffe. The population was 73 as of the 2020 census. It is part of the Paducah, KY-IL Micropolitan Statistical Area.

Its first post office opened in 1842. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 90 to 73 (-19%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

By decade

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.

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On the map

Blandville on the map, 1951 to 1977

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

Blandville on the 1951 USGS mapBlandville on the 1977 USGS map1951Blandville 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 Blandville.

On the National Register

1 historic place in Blandville

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
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none yet
historic buildings protected
2
each building in a district counts
first listed
1998
Dr. David Polk Juett Farmstead
Districts

Architectural styles listings

T Plan Vernacular1
Log House Core1
All 1 listings
Dr. David Polk Juett FarmsteadDistrict · listed 1998

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Famous people

Famous people close to Blandville

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

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Rumer WillisAmerican actress · b. 1988
John T. ScopesAmerican schoolteacher · b. 1900
Boots RandolphAmerican musician · b. 1927
Oscar MicheauxAmerican writer and director · b. 1884
Kenny RollinsAmerican basketball player · b. 1923
Caroline SmithAmerican diver · b. 1906
Places that used to be

Lost post offices

Blandville’s post office has been open since 1842. Another post office, Holloway, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Blandville
1842–today
Holloway
1901–1927
18401930today

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Questions about Blandville’s history

What year was Blandville founded?

The Blandville post office opened in 1842, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Blandville?

One place: the Dr. David Polk Juett Farmstead (listed 1998).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Sources

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 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.