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History · Caneyville

Caneyville’s post office opened in 1837, and 1 of its places is on the National Register

Most of Caneyville was built recently: 0.8% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1974. Its Register listing is the Walnut Grove School.

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How Caneyville began

When was Caneyville founded?

1837

The Caneyville post office opened in 1837, the earliest record of the town by name. Wikidata gives 1880.

2020 census: 529189 years
Founding year: the first Caneyville post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Wikidata: 1880.

What stands out about Caneyville’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 Caneyville are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Deep rootsA post office since 1837: 189 years of Caneyville.
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Start Caneyville’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Caneyville’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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Timeline

Caneyville, 1837 to 1997

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1837Post officeThe Caneyville post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1911BuiltWalnut Grove School is built
  5. 1997Born hereLandon Young is born here
The story so far

Caneyville, in brief

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

Caneyville is a home rule-class city in Grayson County, Kentucky, in the United States. As of the 2020 census, Caneyville had a population of 529. Named for its location on Caney Creek, Caneyville had a post office by 1837 and a town charter by 1840 and was incorporated by the state legislature in 1880.

Its first post office opened in 1837. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 608 to 529 (-13%).

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

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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 National Register

1 historic place in Caneyville

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

place listed
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National Historic Landmarks
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none yet
historic buildings protected
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each building in a district counts
first listed
1988
Walnut Grove School
Walnut Grove School, built 1911
Buildings
All 1 listings
Walnut Grove SchoolBuilding · listed 1988

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

Questions about Caneyville’s history

What year was Caneyville founded?

The Caneyville post office opened in 1837, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records). Wikidata gives 1880.

What is on the National Register in Caneyville?

One place: the Walnut Grove School (listed 1988).

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), Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, 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.