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History · Glenwood

Glenwood’s post office opened in 1906, and 16% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1965 on.

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Quick answers

How Glenwood began

When was Glenwood founded?

1906

The Glenwood post office opened in 1906, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Clear Creek (1904), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 113120 years
Founding year: the first Glenwood post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

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

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The story

How Glenwood came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Glenwood.

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The first house was built in Glenwood in 1878 on the Bush Ranch, later renamed White Water for the creek that runs through it. When it was a stage stop the town was called Glenwood Springs, and in 1901 the town was formally named Glenwood. New Mexico's first powered airplane flight happened in 1909 near Glenwood.

In the 1930s Glenwood was the site of several mild earthquakes.

ChaptersThe Catwalk

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Glenwood, 1904 to 1965

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1904Post officeThe Clear Creek post office opens
  3. 1906Post officeThe Clear Creek post office closes
  4. 1906Post officeThe Glenwood post office opens
  5. 1965On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Glenwood, decade by decade

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On the map

Glenwood on the map, 1965 to 1999

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

Glenwood on the 1965 USGS mapGlenwood on the 1999 USGS map1965Glenwood 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 Glenwood.

Places that used to be

Lost post offices and burying grounds

Glenwood’s post office has been open since 1906. Another post office, Clear Creek, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Clear Creek
1904–1906
Glenwood
1906–today
19001960today
1cemetery inside Glenwood
Glenwood

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

Questions about Glenwood’s history

What year was Glenwood founded?

The Glenwood post office opened in 1906, 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 Wikimedia Commons (12), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, 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.