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History · Aniwa

Aniwa’s post office opened in 1881, and 25% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1973 on and the census since 1900.

1881first post office
0on the National Register
25%homes built before 1940
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Quick answers

How Aniwa began

When was Aniwa founded?

1881

The Aniwa post office opened in 1881, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 367 in 19002020 census: 243145 years
Founding year: the first Aniwa post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Aniwa’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 Aniwa are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The story so far

Aniwa, in brief

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

Aniwa is a village in Shawano County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 243 at the 2020 census. The village is located within the Town of Aniwa. U.S. Route 45 runs north–south through the village.

Its first post office opened in 1881. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 260 to 243 (-7%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

By decade

Aniwa, decade by decade

Today6 recent
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On the map

Aniwa on the map in 1973

The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Aniwa.

Aniwa on the 1973 USGS map1973Aniwa 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 Aniwa.

People over time

Aniwa, census by census

01002003004001900192019401960198020002020Peak: 367

Between 233 and 367 people in every census since 1900.

13 censuses, 1900–2020.

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

Questions about Aniwa’s history

What year was Aniwa founded?

The Aniwa post office opened in 1881, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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 (6), 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.