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Meno’s post office opened in 1899, and 21% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1956 on and the census since 1910.

1899first post office
0on the National Register
21%homes built before 1940
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How Meno began

When was Meno founded?

1899

The Meno post office opened in 1899, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 69 in 19102020 census: 198127 years
Founding year: the first Meno post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Meno’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 Meno are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Shrank, then grewLost half of its people between 1940 and 1950, then more than doubled.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Meno’s history is told.

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People over time

Meno, census by census

0100200192019401960198020002020180 in 1940Low: 76

Lost half of its people between 1940 and 1950, then more than doubled.

12 censuses, 1910–2020.

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

The story

How Meno came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Meno.

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The town of Meno is named after Mennonite leader Menno Simons, and was founded on October 19, 1899 by David Koehn, who omitted one "n" when filling out the Post Office application form. Jacob A. Wedel served as the first postmaster. Meno was originally part of Woods County, until statehood in 1907, at which time it fell within Major County. Many of the original inhabitants were Mennonites of Polish and Russian Mennonite descent. who established the New Hopedale Mennonite Church. It was the previous home of the Oklahoma Bible Academy, originally established in 1911 by the New Hopedale Mennonite Church as Meno Preparatory School, until it was moved to nearby Enid in 1983.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Meno, 1899 to 2010

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1899Post officeThe Meno post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1956On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  5. 21st century
  6. 2010CensusPopulation peaks at 235
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On the map

Meno on the map, 1956 to 1982

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

Meno on the 1956 USGS mapMeno on the 1982 USGS map1956Ringwood 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 Meno.

Questions about Meno’s history

What year was Meno founded?

The Meno post office opened in 1899, 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, 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.