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History · Borup

Borup’s post office opened in 1896, and 24% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1966 on and the census since 1960.

1896first post office
0on the National Register
24%homes built before 1940
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How Borup began

When was Borup founded?

1896

The Borup post office opened in 1896, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 145 in 19602020 census: 96130 years
Founding year: the first Borup post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Borup’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 Borup 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 Borup’s history is told.

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The story

How Borup came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Borup.

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The city was named for Charles William Wulff Borup, a Minnesota banker. A post office called Borup has been in operation since 1896.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

By decade

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On the map

Borup on the map, 1966 to 1984

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

Borup on the 1966 USGS mapBorup on the 1984 USGS map1966Borup 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 Borup.

People over time

Borup, census by census

01001960198020002020Peak: 160

Between 91 and 160 people in every census since 1960.

7 censuses, 1960–2020.

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

Questions about Borup’s history

What year was Borup founded?

The Borup post office opened in 1896, 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.