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History · Correll

Correll’s post office opened in 1880, and 64% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1958 on and the census since 1910.

1880first post office
0on the National Register
64%homes built before 1940
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How Correll began

When was Correll founded?

1880

The Correll post office opened in 1880, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 102 in 19102020 census: 26146 years
Founding year: the first Correll post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Correll’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 Correll are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Correll’s homes were built before 1938.Boom and bustPeaked at 176 in 1920; 26 people lived here in 2020.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Correll’s history is told.

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The story so far

Correll, in brief

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

Correll is a city in Big Stone County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 26 at the 2020 census. Correll was named for David N Correll, a railroad official who founded the city in 1881.

Its first post office opened in 1880. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 34 to 26 (-24%).

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

People over time

Correll, census by census

0100192019401960198020002020Peak: 176

Peaked at 176 in 1920; 26 people lived here in 2020.

12 censuses, 1910–2020.

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

Timeline

Correll, 1880 to 1958

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1880Post officeThe Correll post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1920CensusPopulation peaks at 176
  5. 1958On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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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 map

Correll on the map, 1958 to 1985

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

Correll on the 1958 USGS mapCorrell on the 1985 USGS map1958Correll 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 Correll.

Famous people

Famous people close to Correll

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

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Margaret SordahlNaturalist for the Smithsonian Astrophysical Ob… · b. 1906
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Eddie KienholzAmerican football, basketball, and baseball coa… · b. 1889

Questions about Correll’s history

What year was Correll founded?

The Correll post office opened in 1880, 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 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.