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Stoddard’s post office opened in 1863, and 13% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1926 on and the census since 1910.

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How Stoddard began

When was Stoddard founded?

1863

The Stoddard post office opened in 1863, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 343 in 19102020 census: 840163 years
Founding year: the first Stoddard post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Stoddard’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

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The story

How Stoddard came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Stoddard.

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Stoddard was founded as a farming community. It is notable as one of the few communities along the Mississippi River that was never a trading post or a riverboat stop. The river was originally one mile west of Stoddard, but when Lock and Dam No. 8 was built in 1937, the ensuing lake flooded the lowlands, literally bringing the river to the town.

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Timeline

Stoddard, 1863 to 1926

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1863Post officeThe Stoddard post office opens
  3. 1876Born hereRoy Patterson is born here
  4. 20th century
  5. 1926On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Stoddard, decade by decade

Today10 recent
Coon Creek 22024Coon Creek 2Stoddard, Wisconsin2023Stoddard, WisconsinLumber carrier car 032023Lumber carrier car 03Lumber carrier car 022023Lumber carrier car 02Lumber carrier car 012023Lumber carrier car 01St. Matthew's Lutheran Church & School2016St. Matthew's Lutheran Church & SchoolWIS162WestTerminusStoddardWIS352009WIS162WestTerminusStoddardWIS35StoddardWisconsinSignWIS352009StoddardWisconsinSignWIS35StoddardWisconsinPostOfficeWIS352009StoddardWisconsinPostOfficeWIS35StoddardWisconsinDowntownWIS352009StoddardWisconsinDowntownWIS35
On the map

Stoddard on the map, 1926 to 1983

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

Stoddard on the 1926 USGS mapStoddard on the 1965 USGS mapStoddard on the 1983 USGS map1926Stoddard 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 Stoddard.

People over time

Stoddard, census by census

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Grew from 343 people in 1910 to 840 in 2020.

12 censuses, 1910–2020.

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

Questions about Stoddard’s history

What year was Stoddard founded?

The Stoddard post office opened in 1863, 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 (10), Wikipedia, 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.