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History · Landfall

Half of Landfall’s homes were built after 1989

Most of Landfall was built recently: 1% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1989. Below: maps from 1949 on and the census since 1960.

0on the National Register
1%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Landfall’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 Landfall are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The story

How Landfall came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Landfall.

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From 1953 to 1997 all of the land in Landfall was owned by one family. Mobile homes were built on the land after there was a shortage of affordable housing. The city was incorporated in 1959. In the early 1990s a developer attempted to purchase the city for a shopping mall. The Washington County Housing and Redevelopment Authority purchased the land and sold it to the city in 1997. Since then the city has rented mobile home lots to residents. All homes in the city are owner occupied. Rental of mobile homes is prohibited.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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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

Landfall on the map, 1949 to 1993

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

Landfall on the 1949 USGS mapLandfall on the 1950 USGS mapLandfall on the 1967 USGS mapLandfall on the 1972 USGS mapLandfall on the 1993 USGS map1949Lake Elmo 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 Landfall.

People over time

Landfall, census by census

02004006008001960198020002020Peak: 843

Between 437 and 843 people in every census since 1960.

7 censuses, 1960–2020.

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

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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) 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.