The Glenvil Township post office opened in 1914, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Annandale (1879), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
2020 census: 397112 years
Founding year: the first Glenvil Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓
What stands out about Glenvil Township’s past
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Glenvil was founded in 1873 when the St. Joseph & Denver City Railroad was extended to that point.
The Glenvil post office, first established in 1873 (in the year the settlement was first surveyed) was spelled Glenville until 1914.
Glenvil's population peaked at about 300 in the 1920s, and fell to about half that in 1998.
Glenville's first school was organized during 1871-72 and, like other rural schools, was housed in a wood-frame building. It was demolished by a tornado and rebuilt in 1882. The Glenville School, the first substantial school in the village, operated from 1903 to 1995 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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 (6), 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.
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