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History · Reeves

Reeves’ post office opened in 1907, and 24% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1947 on and the census since 1920.

1907first post office
0on the National Register
24%homes built before 1940
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How Reeves began

When was Reeves founded?

1907

The Reeves post office opened in 1907, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 243 in 19202020 census: 221119 years
Founding year: the first Reeves post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Reeves’ 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 Reeves are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Shrank, then grewLost half of its people between 1920 and 1950, then more than doubled.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Reeves’s history is told.

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People over time

Reeves, census by census

0100200192019401960198020002020243 in 1920Low: 106

Lost half of its people between 1920 and 1950, then more than doubled.

11 censuses, 1920–2020.

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

The story so far

Reeves, in brief

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

Reeves is a village in Allen Parish, Louisiana, United States. As of the 2020 census, Reeves had a population of 221.

Its first post office opened in 1907. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 232 to 221 (-5%).

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

Timeline

Reeves, 1907 to 1947

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1907Post officeThe Reeves post office opens
  3. 1920CensusPopulation peaks at 243
  4. 1947On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Reeves, decade by decade

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On the map

Reeves on the map, 1947 to 1986

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

Reeves on the 1947 USGS mapReeves on the 1961 USGS mapReeves on the 1986 USGS map1947Reeves sheet · 1:31,680

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

Questions about Reeves’ history

What year was Reeves founded?

The Reeves post office opened in 1907, 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 Wikimedia Commons (1), 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.