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History · Lyndon Station

Lyndon Station’s post office opened in 1881, and 31% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1901 on and the census since 1880.

1881first post office
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31%homes built before 1940
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Quick answers

How Lyndon Station began

When was Lyndon Station founded?

1881

The Lyndon Station post office opened in 1881, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Kildare (1856), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

First census: 164 in 18802020 census: 498145 years
Founding year: the first Lyndon Station post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Lyndon Station’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 Lyndon Station are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.On the map since 19013 editions of the USGS map, 1901 to 1975. Watch Lyndon Station change.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Lyndon Station’s history is told.

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On the map

Lyndon Station on the map, 1901 to 1975

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

Lyndon Station on the 1901 USGS mapLyndon Station on the 1957 USGS mapLyndon Station on the 1975 USGS map1901The Dells 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 Lyndon Station.

The story so far

Lyndon Station, in brief

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

Lyndon Station is a village in Juneau County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 498 at the 2020 census.

Its first post office opened in 1881. Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 500 in 2010, 498 in 2020.

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

Timeline

Lyndon Station, 1856 to 1970

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1856Post officeThe Kildare post office opens
  3. 1881Post officeThe Kildare post office closes
  4. 1881Post officeThe Lyndon Station post office opens
  5. 20th century
  6. 1901On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  7. 1970Born hereFrank Kreyer is born here
By decade

Lyndon Station, decade by decade

Today3 recent
Lyndon Station, Wisconsin2024Lyndon Station, WisconsinLyndon Station Wisconsin Sign US12 WIS162013Lyndon Station Wisconsin Sign US12 WIS16WIMap-doton-Lyndon Station2004WIMap-doton-Lyndon Station
People over time

Lyndon Station, census by census

010020030040050018801900192019401960198020002020Peak: 533

Between 136 and 533 people in every census since 1880.

14 censuses, 1880–2020.

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

Places that used to be

Lost post offices

Lyndon Station’s post office has been open since 1881. Another post office, Kildare, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Kildare
1856–1881
Lyndon Station
1881–today
18501940today

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.

KildareIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townLyndonIts storyC−

Questions about Lyndon Station’s history

What year was Lyndon Station founded?

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

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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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 (3), 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.