The story so far
Levis, in brief
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Levis yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 492 to 437 (-11%).
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History · Levis
14% of Levis’ homes were built before 1940
Below: 1 old photo or paper and maps from 1970 on.
0on the National Register
14%homes built before 1940
1old photo or paper
What stands out about Levis’ past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
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Start Levis’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Levis’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.Timeline
Levis, 1894 to 1970
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
- 19th century
- 1894Post officeThe Carlisle post office opens
- 20th century
- 1901Post officeThe Carlisle post office closes
- 1970
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade
Levis, decade by decade
Date unknown1 to date
Date?On the map
Levis on the map, 1970 to 1985
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Levis. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1970Hatfield sheet · 1:24,000U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Levis.
Then & now
Stand where they stood
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Retake this viewLynch Bridge, Spanning Black River at River Road
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Levis’ page.
Retake this view · +15Famous people
See all →Famous people close to Levis
Nobody well known was born in Levis itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
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Jerome P. TheisenAmerican Benedictine monk · b. 1930
Places that used to be
Lost post offices, places now gone and burying grounds
Another post office, Carlisle, opened and closed inside today’s town.
Gone or out of use
Carlyle SchoolschoolDells Dam SchoolschoolMeadow View SchoolschoolOpelt Sand and Gravel PitmineRiverside Schoolschool
3cemeteries and burying grounds inside Levis
Dells DamLevisWinnebago Indian
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.
Questions about Levis’ history
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 the Library of Congress (1), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, 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.