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History · Meteor

Meteor’s post office opened in 1906

Most of Meteor was built recently: 9% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1986. Below: maps from 1972 on.

1906first post office
0on the National Register
9%homes built before 1940
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How Meteor began

When was Meteor founded?

1906

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

2020 census: 156120 years
Founding year: the first Meteor post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Meteor’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 Meteor are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Meteor’s history is told.

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The story so far

Meteor, in brief

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

Meteor is a town in Sawyer County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 156 at the 2020 census.

Its first post office opened in 1906. Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 158 in 2010, 156 in 2020.

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

Timeline

Meteor, 1906 to 1972

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1906Post officeThe Meteor post office opens
  3. 1919Post officeThe Meteor post office closes
  4. 1972On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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On the map

Meteor on the map, 1972 to 1980

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

Meteor on the 1972 USGS mapMeteor on the 1980 USGS map1972Weirgor sheet · 1:24,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Meteor.

Places that used to be

Lost post offices

Meteor had its own post office from 1906 to 1919.

Meteor
1906–1919
19001960today

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.

WeirgorIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townCouderayIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townMurryIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townEdgewaterIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Meteor’s history

What year was Meteor founded?

The Meteor 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 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.