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History · Randolph

Randolph’s post office opened in 1886, and 39% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1957 on and the census since 1910.

1886first post office
0on the National Register
39%homes built before 1940
1famous people
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Quick answers

How Randolph began

When was Randolph founded?

1886

The Randolph post office opened in 1886, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 182 in 19102020 census: 466140 years
Founding year: the first Randolph post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Randolph’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 Randolph are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Randolph’s homes were built before 1955.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Randolph’s history is told.

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The story

How Randolph came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Randolph.

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A post office called Randolph has been in operation since 1886. The city took its name from Randolph Township.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Randolph, 1886 to 1957

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1886Post officeThe Randolph post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1949Born hereSteven Engler is born here
  5. 1957On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

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

Randolph on the map, 1957 to 1974

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

Randolph on the 1957 USGS mapRandolph on the 1974 USGS map1957Farmington sheet · 1:62,500

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

People over time

Randolph, census by census

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Grew from 182 people in 1910 to 466 in 2020.

12 censuses, 1910–2020.

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

Questions about Randolph’s history

What year was Randolph founded?

The Randolph post office opened in 1886, 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, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, 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.