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Pierpont’s post office opened in 1903

Most of Pierpont was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1975. Below: maps from 1948 on and old-book passages.

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How Pierpont began

When was Pierpont founded?

1903

The Pierpont post office opened in 1903, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 64123 years
Founding year: the first Pierpont post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Pierpont’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

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Pierpont, in brief

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Pierpont is a village in Boone County, Missouri, United States. It is part of the Columbia, Missouri Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 64 at the 2020 census. The village, located south of Rock Bridge Memorial State Park at Route N and Highway 163, was incorporated in 2004 to avoid annexation by the city of Columbia. It is now an independent village with its own governing board of trustees.

Its first post office opened in 1903. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 76 to 64 (-16%).

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

From the old history books

What they wrote about Pierpont in 1882

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

In 1861 he enlisted in the Federal army in the Eighteenth Ohio Volunteer regiment, but only served three months. In 1864 he reenlisted under Capt. Frank Buell, in what was known as Buell's Pierpont Battery, Virginia artillery. He was honorably discharged in 1865. The battery was in twenty-three bat…
History of Boone County, Missouri. Written and comp. from the most authentic official and private sources1882 · page 915Read the page →
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In 1861 he enlisted in the Federal army in the Eighteenth Ohio Volunteer regiment, but only served three months. In 1864 he reenlisted under Capt. Frank Buell, in what was known as Buell's Pierpont Battery, Virginia artillery. He was honorably discharged in 1865. The battery was in twenty-three battles and skirmishes. He was wounded while on a scout and taken prisoner by Col. Mosby, but escaped the second night. In the winter of 1865-6, he went on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad as fireman for three or four years, then

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

Timeline

Pierpont, 1903 to 1948

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1903Post officeThe Pierpont post office opens
  3. 1907Post officeThe Pierpont post office closes
  4. 1948On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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On the map

Pierpont on the map, 1948 to 1981

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

Pierpont on the 1948 USGS mapPierpont on the 1950 USGS mapPierpont on the 1969 USGS mapPierpont on the 1981 USGS map1948Columbia 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 Pierpont.

Places that used to be

Lost post offices

Pierpont had its own post office from 1903 to 1907.

Pierpont
1903–1907
19001960today

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

Questions about Pierpont’s history

What year was Pierpont founded?

The Pierpont post office opened in 1903, 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 U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, 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.