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History · Abbs Valley

Abbs Valley’s post office opened in 1848

Most of Abbs Valley was built recently: 5% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1960. Below: maps from 1935 on.

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How Abbs Valley began

When was Abbs Valley founded?

1848

The Abbs Valley post office opened in 1848, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Abb's Valley (1848), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 299178 years
Founding year: the first Abbs Valley post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Abbs Valley’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 Abbs Valley are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Deep rootsA post office since 1848: 178 years of Abbs Valley.Old housesHalf of Abbs Valley’s homes were built before 1960.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Abbs Valley’s history is told.

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Timeline

Abbs Valley, 1848 to 1935

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1848Post officeThe Abb's Valley post office opens
  3. 1891Post officeThe Abb's Valley post office closes
  4. 20th century
  5. 1935On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
The story so far

Abbs Valley, in brief

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

Its first post office opened in 1848.

By decade

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

Abbs Valley on the map, 1935 to 1976

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

Abbs Valley on the 1935 USGS mapAbbs Valley on the 1958 USGS mapAbbs Valley on the 1969 USGS mapAbbs Valley on the 1976 USGS map1935Tiptop 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 Abbs Valley.

Places that used to be

Lost post offices, places now gone and burying grounds

Another post office, Abb's Valley, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Gone or out of use
Smith Storelocale
1cemetery inside Abbs Valley
Dillon

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Questions about Abbs Valley’s history

What year was Abbs Valley founded?

The Abbs Valley post office opened in 1848, 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 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.