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History · Nunda

Nunda’s post office opened in 1907, and 30% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1968 on and the census since 1910.

1907first post office
0on the National Register
30%homes built before 1940
1famous people
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How Nunda began

When was Nunda founded?

1907

The Nunda post office opened in 1907, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 137 in 19102020 census: 46119 years
Founding year: the first Nunda post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Nunda’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 Nunda are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Boom and bustPeaked at 206 in 1920; 46 people lived here in 2020.Old housesHalf of Nunda’s homes were built before 1944.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Nunda’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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People over time

Nunda, census by census

0100200192019401960198020002020Peak: 206

Peaked at 206 in 1920; 46 people lived here in 2020.

12 censuses, 1910–2020.

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

The story

How Nunda came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Nunda.

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The first settlement at Nunda was made in 1877 by a colony of Scandinavians.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Nunda, 1907 to 1968

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1907Post officeThe Nunda post office opens
  3. 1920CensusPopulation peaks at 206
  4. 1945Born hereLance Carson is born here
  5. 1968On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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No old photos in the archives yet

Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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On the map

Nunda on the map, 1968 to 1985

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

Nunda on the 1968 USGS mapNunda on the 1985 USGS map1968Sinai 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 Nunda.

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Nunda TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Nunda’s history

What year was Nunda founded?

The Nunda post office opened in 1907, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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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.