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History · New Bloomfield

New Bloomfield’s post office opened in 1841, and 17% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1939 on and the census since 1960.

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How New Bloomfield began

When was New Bloomfield founded?

1841

The New Bloomfield post office opened in 1841, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 359 in 19602020 census: 687185 years
Founding year: the first New Bloomfield post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about New Bloomfield’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 New Bloomfield are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Deep rootsA post office since 1841: 185 years of New Bloomfield.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how New Bloomfield’s history is told.

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Timeline

New Bloomfield, 1841 to 1939

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1841Post officeThe New Bloomfield post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1909Born hereHarold Borrow is born here
  5. 1939On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
The story

How New Bloomfield came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of New Bloomfield.

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In 1827, a 'Round Prairie Post Office' was opened northwest of New Bloomfield, near what became Guthrie almost 50 years later, and near the southern border of a much larger historic Round Prairie Township (subdivided around 1890 to create what then became the northern portion of Guthrie Township).

In 1836, a historic town of 'Bloomfield', next to or containing the Round Prairie Post Office, was first surveyed.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

By decade

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On the map

New Bloomfield on the map, 1939 to 2000

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

New Bloomfield on the 1939 USGS mapNew Bloomfield on the 1942 USGS mapNew Bloomfield on the 1969 USGS mapNew Bloomfield on the 1981 USGS mapNew Bloomfield on the 2000 USGS map1939Jefferson City 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 New Bloomfield.

People over time

New Bloomfield, census by census

01002003004005006007001960198020002020Peak: 687

Between 359 and 687 people in every census since 1960.

7 censuses, 1960–2020.

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

Places that used to be

Old corners and burying grounds

New Bloomfield’s post office has been open since 1841.

Hamlets and corners on the map
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2cemeteries and burying grounds inside New Bloomfield
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US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Questions about New Bloomfield’s history

What year was New Bloomfield founded?

The New Bloomfield post office opened in 1841, 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.