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History · Clyman

Clyman’s post office opened in 1849, and 40% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1955 on and the census since 1930.

1849first post office
0on the National Register
40%homes built before 1940
3famous people
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How Clyman began

When was Clyman founded?

1849

The Clyman post office opened in 1849, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 200 in 19302020 census: 397177 years
Founding year: the first Clyman post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Clyman’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 Clyman are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Deep rootsA post office since 1849: 177 years of Clyman.Old housesHalf of Clyman’s homes were built before 1958.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Clyman’s history is told.

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Timeline

Clyman, 1849 to 1955

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1849Post officeThe Clyman post office opens
  3. 1863Born hereIsabella Coler Herb is born here
  4. 1886Born hereEugene A. Clifford is born here
  5. 20th century
  6. 1900Born hereOscar Elton Sette is born here
  7. 1955On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
The story

How Clyman came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Clyman.

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A post office called Clyman has been in operation since 1849. The village was named for James Clyman, a pioneer and frontiersman.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

By decade

Clyman, decade by decade

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Clyman Village Hall2024Clyman Village HallUntitled photo2021Untitled photoUntitled photo2020Untitled photoUP 4014 Clyman Jct2019UP 4014 Clyman JctUP 4014 Clyman Jct (full)2019UP 4014 Clyman Jct (full)Map of2019Map ofMapMap of2018Map ofMap
On the map

Clyman on the map, 1955 to 1991

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

Clyman on the 1955 USGS mapClyman on the 1980 USGS mapClyman on the 1991 USGS map1955Horicon 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 Clyman.

People over time

Clyman, census by census

010020030040019401960198020002020Peak: 422

Between 200 and 422 people in every census since 1930.

10 censuses, 1930–2020.

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

Famous people

3 famous people were born in Clyman

Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.

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Eugene A. CliffordAmerican politician · b. 1886
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Oscar Elton SetteAmerican fisheries scientist · b. 1900
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Isabella Coler HerbAnesthetist and pathologist · b. 1863

Questions about Clyman’s history

What year was Clyman founded?

The Clyman post office opened in 1849, 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 Wikimedia Commons (7), 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.