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History · Argyle

Argyle’s post office opened in 1904, and 51% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1948 on and the census since 1910.

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0on the National Register
51%homes built before 1940
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How Argyle began

When was Argyle founded?

1904

The Argyle post office opened in 1904, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 176 in 19102020 census: 144122 years
Founding year: the first Argyle post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Argyle’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 Argyle are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Argyle’s homes were built before 1938.Boom and bustPeaked at 262 in 1970; 144 people lived here in 2020.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Argyle’s history is told.

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The story

How Argyle came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Argyle.

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A post office called Argyle has been in operation since 1904. Argyle was named after the region of Argyll, in Scotland. A variant name was "Campbell's Switch".

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

People over time

Argyle, census by census

0100200192019401960198020002020Peak: 262

Peaked at 262 in 1970; 144 people lived here in 2020.

12 censuses, 1910–2020.

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

Timeline

Argyle, 1904 to 1970

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1904Post officeThe Argyle post office opens
  3. 1948On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  4. 1970CensusPopulation peaks at 262
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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

Argyle on the map, 1948 to 1987

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

Argyle on the 1948 USGS mapArgyle on the 1950 USGS mapArgyle on the 1987 USGS map1948Meta 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 Argyle.

Questions about Argyle’s history

What year was Argyle founded?

The Argyle post office opened in 1904, 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, 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.