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History · Glen Ullin

Glen Ullin’s post office opened in 1883, and 34% of its homes were built before 1940

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How Glen Ullin began

When was Glen Ullin founded?

1883

The Glen Ullin post office opened in 1883, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Glenullin (1895), opened inside today’s city and later closed.

2020 census: 732143 years
Founding year: the first Glen Ullin post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Glen Ullin’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 Glen Ullin are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Glen Ullin’s homes were built before 1957.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Glen Ullin’s history is told.

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The story

How Glen Ullin came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Glen Ullin.

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Glen Ullin was founded in 1883 along the transcontinental route of the Northern Pacific Railway. The name was created by Major Alvan E. Bovay, a Northern Pacific land agent at the time. Glen, the Scottish Gaelic word for "valley," was chosen because of the city's location within a valley, while Ullin was taken from the Thomas Campbell poem Lord Ullin's Daughter. Glen Ullin was originally built up chiefly by Germans from Russia.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Glen Ullin, 1883 to 1905

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1883Post officeThe Glen Ullin post office opens
  3. 1895Post officeThe Glenullin post office opens
  4. 20th century
  5. 1905Post officeThe Glenullin post office closes
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Glen Ullin, decade by decade

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Famous people

Famous people close to Glen Ullin

Nobody well known was born in Glen Ullin itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Gwen SebastianAmerican singer · b. 1974
Alvin JaegerAmerican politician · b. 1943
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Vernon E. WagnerAmerican politician · b. 1926
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Carl F. KraenzelAmerican sociologist · b. 1906
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Donald SchaibleMember of North Dakota State Senate · b. 1957
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Ken BeckerAmerican sports coach · b. 1932
Places that used to be

Lost post offices and burying grounds

Glen Ullin’s post office has been open since 1883. Another post office, Glenullin, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Glen Ullin
1883–today
Glenullin
1895–1905
18801950today
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Glen Ullin
Glen UllinSacred Heart

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

Questions about Glen Ullin’s history

What year was Glen Ullin founded?

The Glen Ullin post office opened in 1883, 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 (12), 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.