Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: maps from 1935 on and the census since 1910.
The Levasy post office opened in 1877, the earliest record of the town by name.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Levasy’s history is told.
Peaked at 283 in 1970; 77 people lived here in 2020.
12 censuses, 1910–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Levasy’s Wikipedia page.
From Wikipedia’s history of Levasy.
A post office called Levasy has been in operation since 1877. The city was named after William Wallace Livesay, an early settler.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Levasy, cut from the printed page as they were published.
ette county, near the town of Napoleon. Mr. Livesay followed farming and stock raising during his whole life, and died in 1884. A brother, Wil¬ liam Livesay, was a plainsman and widely known in this section of Mis¬ souri. The town of Levasy was built on a part of his faiTn and was named in his honor, the variation in spelling of the name being due to a mistake on the part of the railroad officials when the town was established.
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
The bank of Levasy, Levasy, Mo., was chartered for business Jan. 23, 1907. The work of securing the subscription to the stock of the bank was done in the fall of 1906 by H. A. Meinershagen and G. A. Dieckmann.
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.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Levasy. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Levasy.
Nobody well known was born in Levasy itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
The Levasy post office opened in 1877, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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), 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.
