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History · Huntley

Huntley’s post office opened in 1877, and 1 of its places is on the National Register

Most of Huntley was built recently: 8% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 2002. Its Register listing is the Huntley Bridge. Below: maps from 1910 on.

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1on the National Register
8%homes built before 1940
1famous people
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How Huntley began

When was Huntley founded?

1877

The Huntley post office opened in 1877, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 442149 years
Founding year: the first Huntley post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Huntley’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 Huntley are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Huntley’s history is told.

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The story

How Huntley came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Huntley.

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This settlement in arid Crow Indian country was named for S.O. Huntley, a partner in the stagecoach firm of Clark & Huntley. It was located at the head of navigation on the Yellowstone River. The first steamboat, the packet Josephine, arrived June 6, 1875, but river trade was infrequent. A U.S. post office was established in March 1878. The 1880 Census found only 37 people living in Huntley.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Huntley, 1877 to 1956

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1877Post officeThe Huntley post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1910Born hereDick Jones is born here
  5. 1956On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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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

Huntley on the map, 1956 to 1975

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

Huntley on the 1956 USGS mapHuntley on the 1969 USGS mapHuntley on the 1975 USGS map1956Huntley 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 Huntley.

Every building

Huntley, building by building, 1910

Fire insurance maps drew every building, what it was made of and what it was used for, so insurers could price the risk of fire. Pick a sheet.

Huntley fire insurance map, 1910, sheet 11910Sheet 1 of 1
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Sanborn Map Company, via the Library of Congress. Editions published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.

On the National Register

1 historic place in Huntley

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
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National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts
first listed
2012
Huntley Bridge
Huntley Bridge
Structures

Architectural styles listings

Steel Girder Bridge1
Huntley BridgeSteel Girder Bridge

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Questions about Huntley’s history

What year was Huntley founded?

The Huntley post office opened in 1877, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Huntley?

One place: the Huntley Bridge (listed 2012).

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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 the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and Sanborn fire insurance maps (Library of Congress). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.