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History · St. Cloud

St. Cloud’s post office opened in 1867, and 36% of its homes were built before 1940

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0on the National Register
36%homes built before 1940
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How St. Cloud began

When was St. Cloud founded?

1867

The St. Cloud post office opened in 1867, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 489159 years
Founding year: the first St. Cloud post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about St. Cloud’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 St. Cloud are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of St. Cloud’s homes were built before 1953.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how St. Cloud’s history is told.

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The story

How St. Cloud came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of St. Cloud.

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A post office called St. Cloud has been in operation since 1867. The village was named after Saint-Cloud, France.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

By decade

St. Cloud, decade by decade

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Places that used to be

Old corners

Old hamlets and crossroads still carry their names on the map.

Hamlets and corners on the map
Saint Cloud

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.

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Questions about St. Cloud’s history

What year was St. Cloud founded?

The St. Cloud post office opened in 1867, 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 (6), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, 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.