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History · Pierce

Pierce’s post office opened in 1870, and 25% of its homes were built before 1940

1870first post office
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Quick answers

How Pierce began

When was Pierce founded?

1870

The Pierce post office opened in 1870, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, Alaska (1870) and Rostok (1899), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 772156 years
Founding year: the first Pierce post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Pierce’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 Pierce are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Pierce, and 2 old place names are still on the map.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Pierce’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.
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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners and burying grounds

Pierce had its own post office from 1870 to 1871. Two other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Alaska
1870–1904
Pierce
1870–1871
Rostok
1899–1904
18701950today
Hamlets and corners on the map
AlaskaRostok
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Pierce
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US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

The story so far

Pierce, in brief

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

Pierce is a town in Kewaunee County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 772 at the 2020 census.

Its first post office opened in 1870. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 833 to 772 (-7%).

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

Timeline

Pierce, 1870 to 1904

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1870Post officeThe Alaska post office opens
  3. 1870Post officeThe Pierce post office opens
  4. 1871Post officeThe Pierce post office closes
  5. 1899Post officeThe Rostok post office opens
  6. 20th century
  7. 1904Post officeThe Alaska post office closes
  8. 1904Post officeThe Rostok post office closes
By decade

No old photos in the archives yet

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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Famous people

Famous people close to Pierce

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

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Zack SnyderAmerican filmmaker · b. 1966
Tony ShalhoubAmerican actor · b. 1953
Kevin MacLeodAmerican composer and music producer · b. 1972
Jay DeMeritAmerican soccer player · b. 1979
Mona SimpsonAmerican novelist · b. 1957
Curly LambeauAmerican football player, coach, and executive · b. 1898
Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Kewaunee5 historic placesACascoIts storyB−West Kewaunee1 historic placeA

Questions about Pierce’s history

What year was Pierce founded?

The Pierce post office opened in 1870, 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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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 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.