St. Francisville’s post office opened in 1823, and 1 of its places is on the National Register
Most of St. Francisville was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1994. Its Register listing is the James Henning House. Below: maps from 1949 on.
The St. Francisville post office opened in 1823, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, Saint Francisville (1823) and Saint Francisville (1836), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
2020 census: 137203 years
Founding year: the first St. Francisville post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).
What stands out about St. Francisville’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of St. Francisville yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
St. Francisville or Saint Francisville is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in northeast Clark County, Missouri, United States. As of the 2020 census, its population was 137. The community is on Missouri Route B four miles north of Wayland. The Des Moines River and the Missouri-Iowa border are one-half mile north of the community. It is the oldest settlement in Clark County, Missouri.
Its first post office opened in 1823. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 179 to 137 (-23%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
By decade
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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Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of St. Francisville. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1949Wayland sheet · 1:24,000
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of St. Francisville.
On the National Register
1 historic place in St. Francisville
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
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 the National Register of Historic Places (1), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, 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.
