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History · Lewisville

Lewisville’s post office opened in 1855

More historic than 16% of U.S. towns · #378 of 642 in Texas. What drives it

Most of Lewisville was built recently: 0.7% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1997. Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1921 on, and the census since 1880.

1855first post office
0on the National Register
0.7%homes built before 1940
1old photo or paper
13famous people
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From Lewisville’s archive · credits on each photo
Quick answers

How Lewisville began

When was Lewisville founded?

1855

The Lewisville post office opened in 1855, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 466 in 18802020 census: 111,822171 years

How historic is Lewisville?

C−

More historic than 16% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.

What drives the grade ↓
Founding year: the first Lewisville post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓
History grade

What drives Lewisville’s History grade

On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Lewisville is more historic than 16% of U.S. towns, #378 of 642 in Texas. Its age holds the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls it down.

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HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Lewisville’s overall grade.
Founding era1855, from the first post office: founded 1850–1899, an older era than 37% of U.S. townsC+Homes built before 19400.7% of homes (±0.4) · typical TX town 1.6% · U.S. 8.4%DNational RegisterNo listings counted · typical TX town 0.0 per 10,000 · U.S. 2.4C
All U.S. towns we grade (21,289)Ahead of 16%
NewerOlder
Texas towns of 2,500+ (642)Ahead of 41%

Among the 400 U.S. cities of 100,000 or more, Lewisville ranks #364 on History.

Few Texas towns list much on the Register (a typical Texas town has 0.0 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Lewisville’s 0.0 sits below most of its state (34% of Texas towns have fewer) while its 0 listings outnumber those of 23% of U.S. towns.

Newer cities are common at Lewisville’s size: in the typical U.S. city of 100,000 or more, 5% of homes predate 1940.

How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from D to C. The pre-1940 share (±0.4 points) is firm at this size. The founding year is the first post office, not a stated founding date.

Founding year: the first post office (other dates in Quick answers). Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →

What stands out about Lewisville’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenOnly 1 old photo is in the public archives. The rest are in attics and albums.Famous sons and daughtersCody Linley, Saxon Sharbino and 11 more were born here.
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Start Lewisville’s collection

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

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
1 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Retake an old viewUSACE Lewisville Lake and Dam: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
Famous people

13 famous people were born in Lewisville

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

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Cody LinleyAmerican actor · b. 1989
Saxon SharbinoAmerican actress · b. 1999
Jamal AdamsAmerican football player · b. 1995
Paxton PomykalAmerican soccer player · b. 1999
Keyonte GeorgeAmerican basketball player · b. 2003
Nic KerdilesAmerican ice hockey player · b. 1994
The story

How Lewisville came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Lewisville.

Read it all →

In 1841, the Republic of Texas chartered the Peters Colony Land Grant Company (named for William Smalling Peters, publisher of the song "Oh! Susanna") to settle the North Texas area. In 1844, John W. King and his wife settled on the east side of the prairie, where the city now lies. Baptist settlers from Platte County, Missouri, settled on the west side; among them were John and James Holford, who named the area Holford's Prairie. Further south, Presbyterians established a church and called it Flower Mound. In the confusion over land ownership after the Hedgcoxe War, Basdeal Lewis purchased Holford's Prairie in 1853 and renamed it after himself.

ChaptersSettlementProgressGrowth

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Lewisville, 1855 to 1999

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1855Post officeThe Lewisville post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1960On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  5. 1989Born hereCody Linley is born here
  6. 1995Born hereJamal Adams is born here
  7. 1999In the archiveUSACE Lewisville Lake and Dam
  8. 1999Born hereSaxon Sharbino is born here
  9. 1999Born herePaxton Pomykal is born here
By decade

Lewisville, decade by decade

One decade in the archive so far: the 1990s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

1990s1 item
USACE Lewisville Lake and Dam1999USACE Lewisville Lake and Dam
Today11 recent
Lakepointe Crossing near Dallas2011Lakepointe Crossing near DallasLakepoint Crossings, Aerial2011Lakepoint Crossings, AerialLewisville Emblem2010Lewisville Emblem2010 Census Urbanized Area Reference Map for Denton--Lewisville, Texas20102010 Census Urbanized Area Reference Map for Denton--…BookLake2009LakeLewisville entrance sign from west Valley Ridge Pkwy2007Lewisville entrance sign from west Valley Ridge PkwyLewisville Downtown Main St2007Lewisville Downtown Main StIH35E in Lewisville north from SH 1212007IH35E in Lewisville north from SH 121FM3504 Mill St at south terminus north from Bus 1212007FM3504 Mill St at south terminus north from Bus 121US Navy 051203-N-2653P-030 The U.S. Naval Academy Midshipman Adam Ballard of Lewisville, Texas runs to the end- zone fo…2005US Navy 051203-N-2653P-030 The U.S. Naval Academy Mid…TXMap-doton-Lewisville2004TXMap-doton-Lewisville
On the map

Lewisville on the map, 1960 to 1981

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

Lewisville on the 1960 USGS mapLewisville on the 1973 USGS mapLewisville on the 1981 USGS map1960Lewisville East 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 Lewisville.

Every building

Lewisville, building by building, 1921

Fire insurance maps drew every building, what it was made of and what it was used for, so insurers could price the risk of fire. Pick a sheet.

Lewisville fire insurance map, 1921, sheet 11921Sheet 1 of 5
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Sanborn Map Company, via the Library of Congress. Editions published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.

People over time

Lewisville, census by census

020,00040,00060,00080,000100,000120,00018801900192019401960198020002020111,822

Grew from 466 people in 1880 to 111,822 in 2020, more than tenfold.

12 censuses, 1880–2020.

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

Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Hickory CreekIts storyD−CarrolltonIts storyDCoppellIts storyDThe ColonyIts storyD−Highland VillageIts storyDHebronIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townFlower MoundIts storyDGrapevine4 historic placesB+

Questions about Lewisville’s history

What year was Lewisville founded?

The Lewisville post office opened in 1855, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

How does Lewisville rank for history?

Lewisville is more historic than 16% of U.S. towns, #378 of 642 in Texas. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.

How old are the homes in Lewisville?

0.7% of Lewisville’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate), against a typical 1.6% for a Texas town; the median home was built in 1997.

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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).

From Wikimedia Commons (12), 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), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and Sanborn fire insurance maps (Library of Congress). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.