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History · Almond

Almond’s post office opened in 1850, and 61% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1969 on and the census since 1910.

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How Almond began

When was Almond founded?

1850

The Almond post office opened in 1850, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 487 in 19102020 census: 424176 years
Founding year: the first Almond post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Almond’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 Almond are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Almond’s homes were built before 1938.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Almond’s history is told.

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The story

How Almond came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Almond.

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Incorporated in 1905, the town originated when Jacob Meyers from the Mohawk Valley in New York started a stagecoach and freight route between Berlin and Stevens Point, Wisconsin. Because he needed a stop for the horses, he set up a barn and inn on the site of what is now Almond. The U.S. government signed a treaty with the Menominee Natives ceding land in central Wisconsin in 1848, which opened up the area to settlement. A post office was established on July 8, 1850, at the stagecoach stop. James F. Moore, a native of Almond, New York, became postmaster.

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Timeline

Almond, 1850 to 1969

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1850Post officeThe Almond post office opens
  3. 1853Born hereHenry Solomon Wellcome is born here
  4. 20th century
  5. 1969On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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On the map

Almond on the map, 1969 to 1985

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

Almond on the 1969 USGS mapAlmond on the 1985 USGS map1969Almond 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 Almond.

People over time

Almond, census by census

0100200300400500192019401960198020002020Peak: 504

Between 391 and 504 people in every census since 1910.

12 censuses, 1910–2020.

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

Questions about Almond’s history

What year was Almond founded?

The Almond post office opened in 1850, 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 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.