The story
Read it all →How Agenda came to be
From Wikipedia’s history of Agenda.
The name for the town was derived from discussion items at a meeting for the formation of the town, called an “agenda”.
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History · Agenda
Agenda’s post office opened in 1887, and 24% of its homes were built before 1940
Below: maps from 1968 on and the census since 1910.
1887first post office
0on the National Register
24%homes built before 1940
Quick answers
How Agenda began
When was Agenda founded?
1887
The Agenda post office opened in 1887, the earliest record of the town by name.
First census: 616 in 19102020 census: 370139 years
Founding year: the first Agenda post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓
What stands out about Agenda’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
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Start Agenda’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Agenda’s history is told.
Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.People over time
Agenda, census by census
Peaked at 844 in 1930; 370 people lived here in 2020.
12 censuses, 1910–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Agenda’s Wikipedia page.
Timeline
Agenda, 1887 to 1968
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
- 19th century
- 1887Post officeThe Agenda post office opens
- 20th century
- 1916Post officeThe Agenda post office closes
- 1930CensusPopulation peaks at 844
- 1968
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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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Agenda on the map, 1968 to 1984
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Agenda. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1968Butternut sheet · 1:62,500U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Agenda.
Famous people
See all →Famous people close to Agenda
Nobody well known was born in Agenda itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
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Franklin MatthiasAmerican nuclear engineer · b. 1908
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Luke Timothy JohnsonAmerican New Testament Scholar; Robert W. Woodr… · b. 1943
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David GreenwoodAmerican football player · b. 1960J
Joseph SullivanFBI agent · b. 1917Places that used to be
Lost post offices, old corners and places now gone
Agenda had its own post office from 1887 to 1916.
Agenda
18801950today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Holts LandingPetes Landing
Gone or out of use
Green Valley Schoolschool
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Stories next door
History across the town line
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
ChippewaIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townPeeksvilleIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townLakeIts storyCMercerIts storyCKnightIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townSherman1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townButternutIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town
Questions about Agenda’s history
What year was Agenda founded?
The Agenda post office opened in 1887, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
Memory lane
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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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). How TownRatings grades history →
From 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.