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History · Camargo

Camargo’s post office opened in 1892, and 18% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1969 on and the census since 1930.

1892first post office
0on the National Register
18%homes built before 1940
3famous people
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How Camargo began

When was Camargo founded?

1892

The Camargo post office opened in 1892, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 291 in 19302020 census: 193134 years
Founding year: the first Camargo post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Camargo’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

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The story

How Camargo came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Camargo.

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The area that became the present town of Camargo was part of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Reservation until it was opened for non-Indian settlement on April 19, 1892. A Camargo post office was established on September 16, 1892. A weekly mail route to Camargo from Ioland using the Grand post office was made in 1893.

Two stories exist about the meaning of the town name. One claims that it was named for a town in Illinois, while the other claims Camargo meant "little dog" in the Cheyenne language.

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Timeline

Camargo, 1892 to 1969

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1892Post officeThe Camargo post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1906Born hereSylvan Ambrose Hart is born here
  5. 1908Born hereMilford Zornes is born here
  6. 1919Born hereEddie Miller is born here
  7. 1969On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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On the map

Camargo on the map, 1969 to 1985

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

Camargo on the 1969 USGS mapCamargo on the 1985 USGS map1969Camargo 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 Camargo.

People over time

Camargo, census by census

010020030019401960198020002020Peak: 315

Between 115 and 315 people in every census since 1930.

10 censuses, 1930–2020.

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

Famous people

3 famous people were born in Camargo

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Milford ZornesAmerican artist · b. 1908
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Eddie MillerAmerican songwriter, in the country music genre · b. 1919
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Sylvan Ambrose HartAmerican mountain man (d. 1980) · b. 1906

Questions about Camargo’s history

What year was Camargo founded?

The Camargo post office opened in 1892, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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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 Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, 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.