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History · Reed Point

Reed Point’s post office opened in 1906, and 56% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1891 on.

1906first post office
0on the National Register
56%homes built before 1940
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How Reed Point began

When was Reed Point founded?

1906

The Reed Point post office opened in 1906, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Reed (1901), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 177120 years
Founding year: the first Reed Point post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Reed Point’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 Reed Point are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Reed Point’s homes were built before 1938.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Reed Point’s history is told.

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The story

How Reed Point came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Reed Point.

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Reed Point was named after Harry Reed who, with his wife, Alice McCleary Reed, ran a stage station for several years.

About 1876, attracted by the reports of the Black Hills stampede, the Reeds went overland with a covered wagon. After a short sojourn around Spearfish, South Dakota, they joined an expedition going to the Big Horn and Yellowstone valley in the summer of 1877. The caravan was attacked by Native Americans while it was still in the Black Hills country, and several of its members were killed.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Reed Point, 1891 to 1906

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1891On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  3. 20th century
  4. 1901Post officeThe Reed post office opens
  5. 1906Post officeThe Reed post office closes
  6. 1906Post officeThe Reedpoint post office opens
By decade

Reed Point, decade by decade

Today4 recent
Bank on Main Street 20232023Bank on Main Street 2023Bozeman Bullitt2022Bozeman BullittMTMap-doton-ReedPoint2005MTMap-doton-ReedPointBank2004Bank
On the map

Reed Point on the map, 1891 to 1955

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

Reed Point on the 1891 USGS mapReed Point on the 1955 USGS map1891Big Timber 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 Reed Point.

Places that used to be

Lost post offices and places now gone

Another post office, Reed, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Reed
1901–1906
Reedpoint
1906–today
19001960today
Gone or out of use
Reed Point Methodist ChurchchurchSaint Josephs Catholic Churchchurch

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

Questions about Reed Point’s history

What year was Reed Point founded?

The Reed Point post office opened in 1906, 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 Wikimedia Commons (4), 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.