Guest, Sign inJoin

Post to Allenville

We’ll email a one-tap link to publish your post. No password, and nothing is public until you click it.
Already a member? Sign in
–Not graded
History · Allenville

Allenville’s post office opened in 1869, and 14% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1963 on, and the census since 1880.

1869first post office
0on the National Register
14%homes built before 1940
1old photo or paper
Add an old photoShare a memory
From Allenville’s archive · credits on each photo
Quick answers

How Allenville began

When was Allenville founded?

1869

The Allenville post office opened in 1869, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 122 in 18802020 census: 95157 years
Founding year: the first Allenville post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Allenville’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenOnly 1 old photo is in the public archives. The rest are in attics and albums.Boom and bustPeaked at 270 in 1920; 95 people lived here in 2020.
★ What stands out · Help out

Start Allenville’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Allenville’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Date a photo1 archive item has no date. Guess the decade.+2Retake an old viewCovered Bridge: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
People over time

Allenville, census by census

010020030018801900192019401960198020002020Peak: 270

Peaked at 270 in 1920; 95 people lived here in 2020.

10 censuses, 1880–2020.

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

The story so far

Allenville, in brief

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

Allenville is a village in Hubble Township in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, United States. The population was 95 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Cape Girardeau–Jackson, MO-IL Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Its first post office opened in 1869. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 116 to 95 (-18%).

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

Timeline

Allenville, 1869 to 1974

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1869Post officeThe Allenville post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1920CensusPopulation peaks at 270
  5. 1963On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  6. 1974Post officeThe Allenville post office closes
By decade

Allenville, decade by decade

Date unknown1 to date
Covered BridgeDate?Covered Bridge
On the map

Allenville on the map, 1963 to 1984

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

Allenville on the 1963 USGS mapAllenville on the 1984 USGS map1963Whitewater 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 Allenville.

Then & now

Stand where they stood

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.

Covered Bridge
Retake this viewCovered Bridge

Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Allenville’s page.

Retake this view · +15
Places that used to be

Lost post offices

Allenville had its own post office from 1869 to 1974.

Allenville
1869–1974
18601940today

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Questions about Allenville’s history

What year was Allenville founded?

The Allenville post office opened in 1869, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

Town Square →
Start a conversation
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 the Library of Congress (1), 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.