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History · Butteville

Butteville’s post office opened in 1850, and 1 of its places is on the National Register

Most of Butteville was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1995. Its Register listing is the William Riley Scheurer House. Below: maps from 1916 on and the census since 2000.

1850first post office
1on the National Register
0.0%homes built before 1940
2famous people
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How Butteville began

When was Butteville founded?

1850

The Butteville post office opened in 1850, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 293 in 20002020 census: 273176 years
Founding year: the first Butteville post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Butteville’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 Butteville are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.On the map since 19167 editions of the USGS map, 1916 to 1985. Watch Butteville change.
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Start Butteville’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Butteville’s history is told.

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On the map

Butteville on the map, 1916 to 1985

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

Butteville on the 1916 USGS mapButteville on the 1939 USGS mapButteville on the 1940 USGS mapButteville on the 1954 USGS mapButteville on the 1961 USGS mapButteville on the 1970 USGS mapButteville on the 1985 USGS map1916Tualatin 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 Butteville.

The story

How Butteville came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Butteville.

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Butteville was founded in the 1840s by members of the Methodist Mission. Butteville was once served by steamboats running on the Willamette River. Butteville saw the peak of its economy in the 1850s, as it competed with neighboring Champoeg for shipping business from the surrounding French Prairie. Most of Butteville's early residents were French-Canadian.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Butteville, 1850 to 1929

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1850Post officeThe Butteville post office opens
  3. 1887Born hereWalter L. Tooze is born here
  4. 20th century
  5. 1905Post officeThe Butteville post office closes
  6. 1916On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  7. 1929Born hereEdward Leavy is born here
By decade

Butteville, decade by decade

Today1 recent
Town plat2017Town plat
On the National Register

1 historic place in Butteville

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
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National Historic Landmarks
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historic buildings protected
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each building in a district counts
first listed
1981
William Riley Scheurer House
William Riley Scheurer House
Buildings

Architectural styles listings

Queen Anne1
William Riley Scheurer HouseQueen Anne

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

People over time

Butteville, census by census

010020030020002020Peak: 293

Between 265 and 293 people in every census since 2000.

3 censuses, 2000–2020.

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

Famous people

2 famous people were born in Butteville

Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.

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Edward LeavyAmerican judge · b. 1929
Walter L. ToozeAmerican judge · b. 1887
Places that used to be

Lost post offices and places now gone

Butteville had its own post office from 1850 to 1905.

Butteville
1850–1905
18501940today
Gone or out of use
Butteville Post Officepost office

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

Questions about Butteville’s history

What year was Butteville founded?

The Butteville post office opened in 1850, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Butteville?

One place: the William Riley Scheurer House (listed 1981).

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). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikimedia Commons (1), the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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.