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History · Lynndyl

Lynndyl’s post office opened in 1907, and 16% of its homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the Princess Recreation Hall, The-Lynndyl LDS Meetinghouse. Below: maps from 1962 on and the census since 1910.

1907first post office
1on the National Register
16%homes built before 1940
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Photo: National Park Service · Public domain
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How Lynndyl began

When was Lynndyl founded?

1907

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

First census: 113 in 19102020 census: 111119 years
Founding year: the first Lynndyl post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Lynndyl’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 Lynndyl are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Boom and bustPeaked at 495 in 1930; 111 people lived here in 2020.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Lynndyl’s history is told.

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People over time

Lynndyl, census by census

0100200300400500192019401960198020002020Peak: 495

Peaked at 495 in 1930; 111 people lived here in 2020.

12 censuses, 1910–2020.

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

The story

How Lynndyl came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Lynndyl.

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Lynndyl began as a railroad town in 1907. Farming in the area did not begin until 1912. Major rail lines have passed through Lynndyl since its founding. For many years it was the location of a fork in the Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad where one branch proceeded to Provo via Nephi and Santaquin and the other to Salt Lake City via Tooele. Today Lynndyl lends its name to the junction of the Lynndyl Subdivision and Sharp Subdivision.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Lynndyl, 1907 to 1962

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1907Post officeThe Lynndyl post office opens
  3. 1930CensusPopulation peaks at 495
  4. 1962On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Lynndyl, decade by decade

Today3 recent
2022-03-24 19 10 10 UTC minus 6 View north and down from an airplane across northeastern Millard and eastern Juab count…20222022-03-24 19 10 10 UTC minus 6 View north and down f…2020 07 01-10.00.27.362-CDT20202020 07 01-10.00.27.362-CDTPrincess Recreation Hall2014Princess Recreation Hall
On the map

Lynndyl on the map, 1962 to 1979

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

Lynndyl on the 1962 USGS mapLynndyl on the 1979 USGS map1962Lynndyl 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 Lynndyl.

On the National Register

1 historic place in Lynndyl

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
2014
Princess Recreation Hall, The-Lynndyl LDS Meeti…
Princess Recreation Hall, The-Lynndyl LDS Meetinghouse
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All 1 listings
Princess Recreation Hall, The-Lynndyl LDS MeetinghouseBuilding · listed 2014

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

Questions about Lynndyl’s history

What year was Lynndyl founded?

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

What is on the National Register in Lynndyl?

One place: the Princess Recreation Hall, The-Lynndyl LDS Meetinghouse (listed 2014).

Memory lane

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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 (3), the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, 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.