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History · Nibbe

Nibbe’s post office opened in 1920

Below: maps from 1967 on.

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How Nibbe began

When was Nibbe founded?

1920

The Nibbe post office opened in 1920, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 71106 years
Founding year: the first Nibbe post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Nibbe’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

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The story

How Nibbe came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Nibbe.

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Once a station on the Northern Pacific Railway one mile west of the geological formation Pompeys Pillar, Nibbe was established as a town in 1920 along the Yellowstone River. Nibbe was an agricultural community in the Huntley Project area and had a grain elevator and a number of small businesses. The community gradually faded away with the decline of the agricultural industry and the concentration of activities moving to larger nearby communities.

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Timeline

Nibbe, 1920 to 1967

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1920Post officeThe Nibbe post office opens
  3. 1954Post officeThe Nibbe post office closes
  4. 1967On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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On the map

Nibbe on the map, 1967 to 1980

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

Nibbe on the 1967 USGS mapNibbe on the 1980 USGS map1967Nibbe 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 Nibbe.

Places that used to be

Lost post offices

Nibbe had its own post office from 1920 to 1954.

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

Questions about Nibbe’s history

What year was Nibbe founded?

The Nibbe post office opened in 1920, 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, 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.