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Corn’s post office opened in 1918, and 18% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1956 on and the census since 1960.

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How Corn began

When was Corn founded?

1918

The Corn post office opened in 1918, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Korn (1896), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

First census: 317 in 19602020 census: 592108 years
Founding year: the first Corn post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

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

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The story

How Corn came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Corn.

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The word Korn itself is a German word translated in English as 'grain'. Several sources confirm that the town settled by German immigrants received its name because its first post office was located in (or near) a corn field. As a result of anti-German sentiment during World War I, the name of the town was permanently changed from Korn to Corn.

ChaptersOrigins of the town nameFounding and early yearsEducation

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Corn, 1896 to 1956

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1896Post officeThe Korn post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1918Post officeThe Korn post office closes
  5. 1918Post officeThe Corn post office opens
  6. 1956On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Corn, decade by decade

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On the map

Corn on the map, 1956 to 1983

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

Corn on the 1956 USGS mapCorn on the 1983 USGS map1956Cordell sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Corn.

People over time

Corn, census by census

01002003004005006001960198020002020Peak: 592

Between 317 and 592 people in every census since 1960.

7 censuses, 1960–2020.

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

Places that used to be

Lost post offices

Corn’s post office has been open since 1918. Another post office, Korn, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Korn
1896–1918
Corn
1918–today
18901960today

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

Questions about Corn’s history

What year was Corn founded?

The Corn post office opened in 1918, 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 Wikimedia Commons (4), Wikipedia, 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.