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History · Clyde

Clyde’s post office opened in 1880, and 37% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1940 on and the census since 1900.

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37%homes built before 1940
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Quick answers

How Clyde began

When was Clyde founded?

1880

The Clyde post office opened in 1880, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 250 in 19002020 census: 55146 years
Founding year: the first Clyde post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Clyde’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 Clyde are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Boom and bustPeaked at 368 in 1910; 55 people lived here in 2020.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Clyde’s history is told.

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People over time

Clyde, census by census

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Peaked at 368 in 1910; 55 people lived here in 2020.

13 censuses, 1900–2020.

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

The story

How Clyde came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Clyde.

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A post office called Clyde has been in operation since 1880. The community was named from some Clydesdale horses an early citizen had purchased. An early variant name was "New Conception".

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

From the old history books

What they wrote about Clyde in 1882

Passages that mention Clyde, cut from the printed page as they were published.

This town is located on the Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railroad, about two miles northeast of Conception, and eleven miles southeast of Maryville. The post office is called Clyde, which name originated in the following manner ; At a public meeting in July, 1880, composed of some forty citizens, it…
The history of Nodaway county, Missouri, containing a history of the county, its cities, towns, etc., biographical sketches of its citizens1882 · page 229Read the page →
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This town is located on the Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railroad, about two miles northeast of Conception, and eleven miles southeast of Maryville. The post office is called Clyde, which name originated in the following manner ; At a public meeting in July, 1880, composed of some forty citizens, it was thought desirable to give a name to the new post

Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.

Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.

Timeline

Clyde, 1880 to 1941

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1880Post officeThe Clyde post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1910CensusPopulation peaks at 368
  5. 1940On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  6. 1941Born hereMary Gaskill is born here
By decade

Clyde, decade by decade

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On the map

Clyde on the map, 1940 to 1985

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

Clyde on the 1940 USGS mapClyde on the 1985 USGS map1940Parnell 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 Clyde.

Questions about Clyde’s history

What year was Clyde founded?

The Clyde post office opened in 1880, 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 Wikimedia Commons (2), 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), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.