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History · Walkerville

Walkerville’s post office opened in 1878, and 68% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: 2 old photos and papers, maps from 1959 on, and the census since 1880.

1878first post office
0on the National Register
68%homes built before 1940
2old photos & papers
1famous people
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From Walkerville’s archive · credits on each photo
Quick answers

How Walkerville began

When was Walkerville founded?

1878

The Walkerville post office opened in 1878, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 444 in 18802020 census: 639148 years
Founding year: the first Walkerville post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Walkerville’s past

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

A history waiting to be writtenOnly 2 old photos are in the public archives. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Walkerville’s homes were built before 1938.Boom and bustPeaked at 2,621 in 1900; 639 people lived here in 2020.Lost villages4 hamlets and corners are still on the map.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Walkerville’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
1 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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The story

How Walkerville came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Walkerville.

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Walkerville is a suburb of Butte, Montana and is home to some of the earliest mining sites in the area. These sites attracted many investors to Walkerville in the late 1800s. Walkerville is named for four of those investors: brothers Joseph, Samuel, Matthew and David Walker of Salt Lake City; they had purchased the lucrative Alice mine upon recommendation by their agent (and later Copper King) Marcus Daly.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

People over time

Walkerville, census by census

05001,0001,5002,0002,50018801900192019401960198020002020Peak: 2,621

Peaked at 2,621 in 1900; 639 people lived here in 2020.

15 censuses, 1880–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Walkerville’s Wikipedia page.

Timeline

Walkerville, 1878 to 1959

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1878Post officeThe Walkerville post office opens
  3. 1881In the archiveWalkerville, Montana (1883)
  4. 20th century
  5. 1900Born hereDavid Frederick Cunningham is born here
  6. 1900CensusPopulation peaks at 2,621
  7. 1905In the archiveWalkerville, a suburb of Butte, Montana
  8. 1959Post officeThe Walkerville post office closes
  9. 1959On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Walkerville, decade by decade

2 decades in the archive, from the 1880s to the 1900s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

1880s–1900s2 items
Walkerville, Montana (1883)1881Walkerville, Montana (1883)Walkerville, a suburb of Butte, Montana1905Walkerville, a suburb of Butte, Montana
1910s–1990snothing yet
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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Today1 recent
Lexington Mine2025Lexington Mine
On the map

Walkerville on the map, 1959 to 1996

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

Walkerville on the 1959 USGS mapWalkerville on the 1989 USGS mapWalkerville on the 1996 USGS map1959Butte North 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 Walkerville.

Then & now

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Walkerville, Montana (1883)
Retake this viewWalkerville, Montana (1883), 1881

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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners and places now gone

Walkerville had its own post office from 1878 to 1959.

Walkerville
1878–1959
18701950today
Hamlets and corners on the map
AllendaleButchertownNorth WalkervilleStringtown
Gone or out of use
1706 North Main Street Minemine43 West La Plata Street MinemineAlice PitmineBlaine School MinemineEveline MinemineGlengarry MinemineGoldsmithmineGoldsmith MinemineJosephine Flag MinemineLexington MinemineLexington MinemineLexington Sand Pass MinemineMagna Charta MinemineMissoula MinemineMoose Air ShaftmineMoose Auraria MineminePaymaster MinemineRailroad Loop Minemine

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

Questions about Walkerville’s history

What year was Walkerville founded?

The Walkerville post office opened in 1878, 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 (2), the Library of Congress (1), Wikidata (1), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), 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.