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History · Maribel

Maribel’s post office opened in 1906, and 41% of its homes were built before 1940

1906first post office
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How Maribel began

When was Maribel founded?

1906

The Maribel post office opened in 1906, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 336120 years
Founding year: the first Maribel post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Maribel’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 Maribel are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Maribel’s homes were built before 1955.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Maribel’s history is told.

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The story

How Maribel came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Maribel.

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A post office called Maribel has been in operation since 1837. The community took its name from a nearby mineral spring.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

By decade

Maribel, decade by decade

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Famous people

Famous people close to Maribel

Nobody well known was born in Maribel itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Thorstein VeblenAmerican economist and sociologist · b. 1857
Lydia ClarkeAmerican actress and photographer · b. 1923
Thomas J. WalshAmerican politician · b. 1859
Merta SterlingAmerican actress · b. 1883
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Robert O. CookSound engineer · b. 1903
Charles Francis LaseronAustralian malacologist, stamp dealer and phila… · b. 1887

Questions about Maribel’s history

What year was Maribel founded?

The Maribel post office opened in 1906, 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 (6), 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.