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History · Lambert

Lambert’s post office opened in 1901

Below: maps from 1969 on and the census since 1910.

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How Lambert began

When was Lambert founded?

1901

The Lambert post office opened in 1901, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 127 in 19102020 census: 5125 years
Founding year: the first Lambert post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Lambert’s past

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The story

How Lambert came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Lambert.

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The town of Lambert was named after Ambrose Lambert, who owned the original townsite. Lambert is contiguous to the similar small community of Yewed directly to its east. Part of the area known as the Cherokee Outlet, Lambert was originally part of Woods County after 1893 until the time of statehood in 1907, when the area became part of newly formed Alfalfa County.

The Choctaw Northern Railroad (later owned by the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific

), which in 1901 became the county's first railroad, connected Lambert to the other Alfalfa county towns of Aline, Augusta, Ingersoll, Driftwood, Amorita, and on into Kansas. Lambert had a U.S. Post Office beginning in November 21, 1901 and remaining open until April 30, 1952.

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Timeline

Lambert, 1901 to 1969

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1901Post officeThe Lambert post office opens
  3. 1903Born hereHarold Keith is born here
  4. 1952Post officeThe Lambert post office closes
  5. 1969On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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On the map

Lambert on the map, 1969 to 1990

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

Lambert on the 1969 USGS mapLambert on the 1985 USGS mapLambert on the 1990 USGS map1969Lambert 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 Lambert.

People over time

Lambert, census by census

0100192019401960198020002020Peak: 130

Between 5 and 130 people in every census since 1910.

12 censuses, 1910–2020.

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

Places that used to be

Lost post offices

Lambert had its own post office from 1901 to 1952.

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

Questions about Lambert’s history

What year was Lambert founded?

The Lambert post office opened in 1901, 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.