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History · Egeland

Egeland’s post office opened in 1905, and 30% of its homes were built before 1940

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Quick answers

How Egeland began

When was Egeland founded?

1905

The Egeland post office opened in 1905, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Lakeview (1903), opened inside today’s city and later closed.

2020 census: 32121 years
Founding year: the first Egeland post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

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

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The story so far

Egeland, in brief

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

Egeland is a city in Towner County, North Dakota, United States. The population was 32 at the 2020 census. Egeland was founded in 1905.

Its first post office opened in 1905. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 28 to 32 (+14%).

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

Timeline

Egeland, 1903 to 1905

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1903Post officeThe Lakeview post office opens
  3. 1905Post officeThe Lakeview post office closes
  4. 1905Post officeThe Egeland post office opens
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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Places that used to be

Lost post offices

Egeland’s post office has been open since 1905. Another post office, Lakeview, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Lakeview
1903–1905
Egeland
1905–today
19001960today

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

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Paulson TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townVictor TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Egeland’s history

What year was Egeland founded?

The Egeland post office opened in 1905, 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 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.