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History · Deer Park

Deer Park’s post office opened in 1876, and 29% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1950 on and the census since 1880.

1876first post office
0on the National Register
29%homes built before 1940
1famous people
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How Deer Park began

When was Deer Park founded?

1876

The Deer Park post office opened in 1876, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 56 in 18802020 census: 249150 years
Founding year: the first Deer Park post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Deer Park’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 Deer Park are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Deer Park’s homes were built before 1959.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Deer Park’s history is told.

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The story

How Deer Park came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Deer Park.

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Deer Park was founded in 1876. The village was named after an early nature preserve for deer near the town site. A post office has been in operation in Deer Park since 1876.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Deer Park, 1876 to 1950

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1876Post officeThe Deer Park post office opens
  3. 1899Born hereTed Kleinhans is born here
  4. 20th century
  5. 1950On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Deer Park, decade by decade

Today4 recent
Deer Park Wisconsin Sign2016Deer Park Wisconsin SignDeer Park Wisconsin Post Office2016Deer Park Wisconsin Post OfficeDeer Park Wisconsin Downtown WIS462016Deer Park Wisconsin Downtown WIS46WIMap-doton-Deer Park2005WIMap-doton-Deer Park
On the map

Deer Park on the map, 1950 to 1975

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

Deer Park on the 1950 USGS mapDeer Park on the 1975 USGS map1950Deer Park 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 Deer Park.

People over time

Deer Park, census by census

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Grew from 56 people in 1880 to 249 in 2020, 4 times over.

12 censuses, 1880–2020.

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

Questions about Deer Park’s history

What year was Deer Park founded?

The Deer Park post office opened in 1876, 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 (4), 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.