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History · Landusky

Landusky’s post office opened in 1894, and 40% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1943 on.

1894first post office
0on the National Register
40%homes built before 1940
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How Landusky began

When was Landusky founded?

1894

The Landusky post office opened in 1894, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 22132 years
Founding year: the first Landusky post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Landusky’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 Landusky are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Landusky’s homes were built before 1951.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Landusky’s history is told.

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The story so far

Landusky, in brief

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

Landusky is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Phillips County, Montana, United States, with a population of 22 per the 2020 census. It is in the southwestern part of the county, in the southwestern part of the Little Rocky Mountains. It sits in the valley of Rock Creek, between Mill Gulch to the northeast and Montana Gulch to the northwest. Ore Street dead-ends in Landusky and leads southwest out of the Little Rockies 3.5 miles (5.6 km) to Montana Highway 66. The community is served by the Zortman post office, less than 5 miles (8 km) to the northeast across the Little Rockies but 21 miles (34 km) by road. Landusky was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 c…

Its first post office opened in 1894.

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

Timeline

Landusky, 1894 to 1983

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1894Post officeThe Landusky post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1943On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  5. 1983Post officeThe Landusky post office closes
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On the map

Landusky on the map, 1943 to 1984

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

Landusky on the 1943 USGS mapLandusky on the 1971 USGS mapLandusky on the 1984 USGS map1943Landusky sheet · 1:125,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Landusky.

Places that used to be

Lost post offices and places now gone

Landusky had its own post office from 1894 to 1983.

Landusky
1894–1983
18901960today
Gone or out of use
Landusky Post Officepost office

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

Questions about Landusky’s history

What year was Landusky founded?

The Landusky post office opened in 1894, 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) 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.