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History · Evendale

Evendale’s post office opened in 1878

More historic than 15% of U.S. towns · #940 of 993 in Ohio. What drives it

Most of Evendale was built recently: 2% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1982. Below: maps from 1955 on and the census since 1960.

1878first post office
0on the National Register
2%homes built before 1940
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Quick answers

How Evendale began

When was Evendale founded?

1878

The Evendale post office opened in 1878, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, McWhorter (1876), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

First census: 773 in 19602020 census: 2,669148 years

How historic is Evendale?

C−

More historic than 15% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.

What drives the grade ↓
Founding year: the first Evendale post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).
History grade

What drives Evendale’s History grade

On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Evendale is more historic than 15% of U.S. towns, #940 of 993 in Ohio. Its age holds the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls it down.

C−
HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Evendale’s overall grade.
Founding era1878, from the first post office: founded 1850–1899, an older era than 37% of U.S. townsC+Homes built before 19401.5% of homes (±1.4) · typical OH town 14.5% · U.S. 8.4%C−National RegisterNo listings counted · typical OH town 2.9 per 10,000 · U.S. 2.4C−
All U.S. towns we grade (21,289)Ahead of 15%
NewerOlder
Ohio towns of 2,500+ (993)Ahead of 5%

Ohio towns list about as much on the Register as the country (a typical Ohio town has 2.9 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Evendale’s 0.0 sits below most of its state (23% of Ohio towns have fewer) while its 0 listings outnumber those of 23% of U.S. towns.

How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from D to C−. The pre-1940 share (±1.4 points) is firm at this size. The founding year is the first post office, not a stated founding date.

Founding year: the first post office (other dates in Quick answers). Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →

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

Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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The story so far

Evendale, in brief

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

Evendale (pronounced EE-vən-dayl) is a village in Hamilton County, Ohio, United States, within the Cincinnati metropolitan area. The population was 2,669 at the 2020 census.

Its first post office opened in 1878. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 2,767 to 2,669 (-4%).

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

Timeline

Evendale, 1876 to 1955

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1876Post officeThe McWhorter post office opens
  3. 1878Post officeThe McWhorter post office closes
  4. 1878Post officeThe Evendale post office opens
  5. 1892Post officeThe Evendale post office closes
  6. 20th century
  7. 1955On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Evendale, decade by decade

Today4 recent
Map of Hamilton County Ohio Highlighting Evendale Village2015Map of Hamilton County Ohio Highlighting Evendale Vil…MapMathew Mound from Oak Road2012Mathew Mound from Oak RoadBrown-Gorman Farm barn2012Brown-Gorman Farm barnOHMap-doton-Evendale2004OHMap-doton-Evendale
On the map

Evendale on the map, 1955 to 1982

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

Evendale on the 1955 USGS mapEvendale on the 1965 USGS mapEvendale on the 1974 USGS mapEvendale on the 1982 USGS map1955Glendale 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 Evendale.

People over time

Evendale, census by census

05001,0001,5002,0002,5003,0003,5001960198020002020Peak: 3,175

Between 773 and 3,175 people in every census since 1960.

7 censuses, 1960–2020.

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

Places that used to be

Lost post offices, places now gone and burying grounds

Evendale had its own post office from 1878 to 1892. Another post office, McWhorter, opened and closed inside today’s town.

McWhorter
1876–1878
Evendale
1878–1892
18701950today
Gone or out of use
Cincinnati BowllocaleEvendale Post Officepost officeGorman Heritage Farmlocale
1cemetery inside Evendale
Rest Haven Memorial Park

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.

Sharonville1 historic placeBReadingIts storyBLincoln HeightsIts storyDLockland1 historic placeABlue Ash1 historic placeC+Glendale2 historic placesAWoodlawn1 historic placeC+

Questions about Evendale’s history

What year was Evendale founded?

The Evendale post office opened in 1878, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

How does Evendale rank for history?

Evendale is more historic than 15% of U.S. towns, #940 of 993 in Ohio. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.

How old are the homes in Evendale?

2% of Evendale’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±1.4 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1982.

Memory lane

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

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Sources

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).

From Wikimedia Commons (4), Wikidata (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.