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History · Lakeview

Lakeview’s post office opened in 1897, and 24% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1950 on.

1897first post office
0on the National Register
24%homes built before 1940
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How Lakeview began

When was Lakeview founded?

1897

The Lakeview post office opened in 1897, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 15129 years
Founding year: the first Lakeview post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Lakeview’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 Lakeview 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 Lakeview’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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The story so far

Lakeview, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Lakeview yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Its first post office opened in 1897.

Timeline

Lakeview, 1897 to 1950

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1897Post officeThe Lakeview post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1938Post officeThe Lakeview post office closes
  5. 1950On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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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On the map

Lakeview on the map, 1950 to 1988

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

Lakeview on the 1950 USGS mapLakeview on the 1988 USGS map1950Lower Red Rock Lake 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 Lakeview.

Places that used to be

Lost post offices and places now gone

Lakeview had its own post office from 1897 to 1938.

Lakeview
1897–1938
18901960today
Gone or out of use
Lakeview Post Officepost officeLakeview Schoolschool

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

Questions about Lakeview’s history

What year was Lakeview founded?

The Lakeview post office opened in 1897, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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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) 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.