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History · Ewing

Ewing’s post office opened in 1894, and 13% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1903 on and the census since 1910.

1894first post office
0on the National Register
13%homes built before 1940
1famous people
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Quick answers

How Ewing began

When was Ewing founded?

1894

The Ewing post office opened in 1894, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 327 in 19102020 census: 406132 years
Founding year: the first Ewing post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Ewing’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 Ewing are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.On the map since 19034 editions of the USGS map, 1903 to 1986. Watch Ewing change.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Ewing’s history is told.

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On the map

Ewing on the map, 1903 to 1986

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

Ewing on the 1903 USGS mapEwing on the 1951 USGS mapEwing on the 1975 USGS mapEwing on the 1986 USGS map1903Kahoka sheet · 1:125,000

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

The story

How Ewing came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Ewing.

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A post office called Ewing has been in operation since 1894. The community was named after William Ewing, a pioneer citizen.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Ewing, 1889 to 1903

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1889Born hereRoy T. Davis is born here
  3. 1894Post officeThe Ewing post office opens
  4. 20th century
  5. 1903On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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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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People over time

Ewing, census by census

0100200300400500192019401960198020002020Peak: 464

Between 309 and 464 people in every census since 1910.

12 censuses, 1910–2020.

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

Questions about Ewing’s history

What year was Ewing founded?

The Ewing post office opened in 1894, 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.