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History · Anoka

Anoka’s post office opened in 1902, and 57% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1964 on and the census since 1910.

1902first post office
0on the National Register
57%homes built before 1940
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How Anoka began

When was Anoka founded?

1902

The Anoka post office opened in 1902, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 145 in 19102020 census: 10124 years
Founding year: the first Anoka post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

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

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The story

How Anoka came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Anoka.

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Anoka was laid out in 1902. The village was named after Anoka, Minnesota.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Anoka, 1902 to 1966

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1902Post officeThe Anoka post office opens
  3. 1964On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  4. 1966Post officeThe Anoka post office closes
By decade

Anoka, decade by decade

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On the map

Anoka on the map, 1964 to 1986

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

Anoka on the 1964 USGS mapAnoka on the 1986 USGS map1964Butte 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 Anoka.

People over time

Anoka, census by census

0100192019401960198020002020Peak: 145

Between 6 and 145 people in every census since 1910.

12 censuses, 1910–2020.

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

Places that used to be

Lost post offices and places now gone

Anoka had its own post office from 1902 to 1966.

Anoka
1902–1966
19001960today
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US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Questions about Anoka’s history

What year was Anoka founded?

The Anoka post office opened in 1902, 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, 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.