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From Wikipedia’s history of Grasston.
A post office called Grasston has been in operation since 1899. The city derives its name from Grass Lake.
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History · Grasston
Grasston’s post office opened in 1899, and 31% of its homes were built before 1940
Below: maps from 1961 on and the census since 1910.
1899first post office
0on the National Register
31%homes built before 1940
Quick answers
How Grasston began
When was Grasston founded?
1899
The Grasston post office opened in 1899, the earliest record of the town by name.
First census: 189 in 19102020 census: 154127 years
Founding year: the first Grasston post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓
What stands out about Grasston’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
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Start Grasston’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Grasston’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.People over time
Grasston, census by census
Peaked at 239 in 1920; 154 people lived here in 2020.
12 censuses, 1910–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Grasston’s Wikipedia page.
Timeline
Grasston, 1899 to 1961
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
- 19th century
- 1899Post officeThe Grasston post office opens
- 20th century
- 1920CensusPopulation peaks at 239
- 1961
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade
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Grasston on the map, 1961 to 1983
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Grasston. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1961Brook Park sheet · 1:62,500U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Grasston.
Stories next door
History across the town line
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Questions about Grasston’s history
What year was Grasston founded?
The Grasston post office opened in 1899, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
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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 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.