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History · Wallace

Wallace’s post office opened in 1887, and 40% of its homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the Johnston Memorial Building. Below: maps from 1973 on and the census since 1900.

1887first post office
1on the National Register
40%homes built before 1940
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Quick answers

How Wallace began

When was Wallace founded?

1887

The Wallace post office opened in 1887, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 130 in 19002020 census: 318139 years
Founding year: the first Wallace post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Wallace’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 Wallace are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Wallace’s homes were built before 1951.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Wallace’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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The story so far

Wallace, in brief

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

Wallace is a village in Lincoln County, Nebraska, United States. It is part of the North Platte, Nebraska Micropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2020 census, Wallace had a population of 318.

Its first post office opened in 1887. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 366 to 318 (-13%).

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

Timeline

Wallace, 1887 to 1973

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1887Post officeThe Wallace post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1921BuiltJohnston Memorial Building is built
  5. 1973On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Wallace, decade by decade

Today6 recent
Wallace, Nebraska fire station2011Wallace, Nebraska fire stationWallace, Nebraska downtown 32011Wallace, Nebraska downtown 3Wallace, Nebraska downtown 22011Wallace, Nebraska downtown 2Wallace, Nebraska downtown 12011Wallace, Nebraska downtown 1Wallace, Nebraska city hall2011Wallace, Nebraska city hallWallace, Nebraska Citizens Security Bank2011Wallace, Nebraska Citizens Security Bank
On the map

Wallace on the map in 1973

The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Wallace.

Wallace on the 1973 USGS map1973Wallace 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 Wallace.

On the National Register

1 historic place in Wallace

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts
first listed
1986
Johnston Memorial Building
Johnston Memorial Building, built 1921
Buildings

Architectural styles listings

Vernacular1
Prairie1
Craftsman1
Johnston Memorial BuildingVernacular · Built 1921

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

People over time

Wallace, census by census

01002003004001900192019401960198020002020Peak: 406

Between 130 and 406 people in every census since 1900.

13 censuses, 1900–2020.

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

Famous people

Famous people close to Wallace

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

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Chuck HagelAmerican soldier and politician · b. 1946
Red CloudChief of Oglala Lakota · b. 1822
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Evelyn HookerAmerican psychologist · b. 1907
Mike MogisAmerican multi-instrumentalist · b. 1974
Howard BaskervilleAmerican educator and revolutionary fighter in … · b. 1885
Keith NevilleAmerican politician · b. 1884

Questions about Wallace’s history

What year was Wallace founded?

The Wallace post office opened in 1887, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Wallace?

One place: the Johnston Memorial Building (listed 1986).

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 Wikimedia Commons (6), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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.