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History · Verona

Verona’s post office opened in 1857, and 16% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1943 on and the census since 1870.

1857first post office
0on the National Register
16%homes built before 1940
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How Verona began

When was Verona founded?

1857

The Verona post office opened in 1857, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 240 in 18702020 census: 507169 years
Founding year: the first Verona post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Verona’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 Verona are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Boom and bustPeaked at 714 in 2000; 507 people lived here in 2020.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Verona’s history is told.

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People over time

Verona, census by census

010020030040050060070018801900192019401960198020002020Peak: 714

Peaked at 714 in 2000; 507 people lived here in 2020.

14 censuses, 1870–2020.

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

The story

How Verona came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Verona.

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A post office called Verona has been in operation since 1857. The town site was platted in 1868. The community was named after Verona, Italy. The city was incorporated in 1916.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Verona, 1857 to 2000

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1857Post officeThe Verona post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1943On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  5. 21st century
  6. 2000CensusPopulation peaks at 714
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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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On the map

Verona on the map, 1943 to 1972

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

Verona on the 1943 USGS mapVerona on the 1972 USGS map1943Monett 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 Verona.

Questions about Verona’s history

What year was Verona founded?

The Verona post office opened in 1857, 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, 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.