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History · Langlois

Langlois’ post office opened in 1881, and 16% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1954 on.

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16%homes built before 1940
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How Langlois began

When was Langlois founded?

1881

The Langlois post office opened in 1881, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 196145 years
Founding year: the first Langlois post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Langlois’ 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 Langlois are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Langlois’ homes were built before 1956.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Langlois’s history is told.

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The story so far

Langlois, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Langlois yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Langlois is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Curry County, Oregon, United States, on the Oregon Coast established in 1881. As of the 2020 census, Langlois had a population of 196. Langlois was once famous for its blue cheese, until the cheese factory burned down in the 1950s. It was never rebuilt. Langlois was named for William Langlois, an early Oregon pioneer. As phonetically spelled in the 1860 Federal Census, Port Oxford Precint [sic], page 110, the name was pronounced "Langless,” however the modern pronunciation used by the local residents today is “Lang-loyce.” (It rhymes with Joyce.) The population consists primarily of retirees, with a healthy mix of ranche…

Its first post office opened in 1881. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 177 to 196 (+11%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

Langlois, 1881 to 1954

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1881Post officeThe Langlois post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1936Born hereBeverly Clarno is born here
  5. 1954On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Langlois, decade by decade

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On the map

Langlois on the map, 1954 to 1996

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

Langlois on the 1954 USGS mapLanglois on the 1986 USGS mapLanglois on the 1996 USGS map1954Langlois 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 Langlois.

Questions about Langlois’ history

What year was Langlois founded?

The Langlois post office opened in 1881, 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 (12), Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, 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.