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History · Blue Mound Township

Blue Mound Township’s post office opened in 1843, and 16% of its homes were built before 1940

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How Blue Mound Township began

When was Blue Mound Township founded?

1843

The Blue Mound Township post office opened in 1843, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Blue Mound (1843), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 445183 years
Founding year: the first Blue Mound Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Blue Mound Township’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 Blue Mound Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Deep rootsA post office since 1843: 183 years of Blue Mound Township.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Blue Mound Township’s history is told.

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Timeline

Blue Mound Township, 1843 to 1908

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1843Post officeThe Blue Mound post office opens
  3. 1852Post officeThe Dawn post office opens
  4. 20th century
  5. 1908Post officeThe Blue Mound post office closes
The story so far

Blue Mound Township, in brief

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

Blue Mound Township is a township in Livingston County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. Blue Mound Township was established in 1843, and named for a summit within its borders which appears blue when viewed from afar.

Its first post office opened in 1843. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 533 to 445 (-17%).

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

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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Famous people

Famous people close to Blue Mound Township

Nobody well known was born in Blue Mound Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Paul Carpenter StandleyAmerican botanist · b. 1884
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Willis GlassgowAmerican football player · b. 1907
James KirkpatrickAmerican politician from Missouri · b. 1905
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Noel ShullMissouri representative and member of the Repub… · b. 1942
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Bob F. GriffinAmerican politician · b. 1935
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Lawrence WalkupAmerican academic administrator · b. 1914
Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

Another post office, Blue Mound, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Blue Mound
1843–1908
Dawn
1852–today
18401930today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Blue MoundDawn
Gone or out of use
Barry SchoolschoolBaxter SchoolschoolBlue Mound SchoolschoolBowman SchoolschoolKincaid SchoolschoolStone SchoolschoolSwain Schoolschool
3cemeteries and burying grounds inside Blue Mound Township
Blue MoundChristianWelsh

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

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Green TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townMonroe TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townFairview TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townHill TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townDawnIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Blue Mound Township’s history

What year was Blue Mound Township founded?

The Blue Mound Township post office opened in 1843, 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 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.