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History · Osceola

Osceola’s post office opened in 1850, and 15% of its homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the Osceola Town Hall.

1850first post office
1on the National Register
15%homes built before 1940
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Quick answers

How Osceola began, and where its name came from

When was Osceola founded?

1850

The Osceola post office opened in 1850, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 243176 years

How did Osceola get its name?

The town is named for the Seminole fighter Osceola.

Founding year: the first Osceola post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Name: Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
On the National Register

1 historic place in Osceola

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
2005
Osceola Town Hall
Osceola Town Hall
Buildings

Architectural styles listings

Carpenter Gothic1
Osceola Town HallCarpenter Gothic

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

Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

Osceola had its own post office from 1850 to 1953.

Osceola
1850–1953
18501940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
MonteolaNew Campbellwood WyeNorth OsceolaOld Campbellwood Wye
Gone or out of use
School Number 1schoolSchool Number 3schoolSchool Number 4schoolSchool Number 5schoolSchool Number 7school
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Osceola
Mount PleasantSalmon River

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

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

RedfieldIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townWest Turin6 historic placesA+LewisIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townMontagueIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townFlorenceIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Osceola’s history

What year was Osceola founded?

The Osceola post office opened in 1850, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Osceola?

One place: the Osceola Town Hall (listed 2005).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

Town Square →
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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 the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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.