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History · Cottageville

Cottageville’s post office opened in 1879

Most of Cottageville was built recently: 6% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1991. Below: maps from 1918 on and the census since 1910.

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How Cottageville began

When was Cottageville founded?

1879

The Cottageville post office opened in 1879, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 418 in 19102020 census: 701147 years
Founding year: the first Cottageville post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Cottageville’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 Cottageville are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.On the map since 19183 editions of the USGS map, 1918 to 1980. Watch Cottageville change.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Cottageville’s history is told.

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On the map

Cottageville on the map, 1918 to 1980

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

Cottageville on the 1918 USGS mapCottageville on the 1943 USGS mapCottageville on the 1980 USGS map1918Cottageville 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 Cottageville.

The story

How Cottageville came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Cottageville.

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Cottageville was incorporated in 1937 because residents in the area desired a post office.

On May 16, 2011, the former mayor of Cottageville, Bert Reeves, was shot and killed by Cottageville Police Officer Randall Price. Price alleged that Reeves tried to assault him because Price had arrested Reeves' employee in March 2011. However, the attorney of the Reeves estate stated that Price was never at risk during the encounter and that Price boxed in Reeves' car without cause. Reeves' estate was awarded $97.5 million by a jury in a lawsuit against the city for negligence.

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Timeline

Cottageville, 1879 to 1924

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1879Post officeThe Cottageville post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1918On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  5. 1924Born hereBettye Ackerman is born here
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People over time

Cottageville, census by census

0200400600800192019401960198020002020Peak: 762

Between 371 and 762 people in every census since 1910.

12 censuses, 1910–2020.

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

Questions about Cottageville’s history

What year was Cottageville founded?

The Cottageville post office opened in 1879, 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.