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History · Monaville

Monaville’s post office opened in 1915, and 19% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1913 on.

1915first post office
0on the National Register
19%homes built before 1940
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How Monaville began

When was Monaville founded?

1915

The Monaville post office opened in 1915, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 302111 years
Founding year: the first Monaville post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Monaville’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 Monaville are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.On the map since 19136 editions of the USGS map, 1913 to 1996. Watch Monaville change.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Monaville’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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On the map

Monaville on the map, 1913 to 1996

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

Monaville on the 1913 USGS mapMonaville on the 1926 USGS mapMonaville on the 1963 USGS mapMonaville on the 1976 USGS mapMonaville on the 1989 USGS mapMonaville on the 1996 USGS map1913Logan 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 Monaville.

The story

How Monaville came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Monaville.

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Monaville formerly held the US postal ZIP code 25636 until the post office was closed. Monaville was formerly known as "Vanceville" and was listed as such on a US Postal Service map of the late 1890s. The region was likely named for the Vance family who owned much of the land prior to the coal mining era.

The name is believed to have been changed to "Monaville" in honor of Mona Wilkinson, the daughter of a prominent coal mining official. The Logan Mining Company operated a coal mine here, and the name "Mona Mine" appears on a 1918 photo of the coal tipple.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Monaville, 1913 to 1994

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1913On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  3. 1915Post officeThe Monaville post office opens
  4. 1994Post officeThe Monaville post office closes
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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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Places that used to be

Lost post offices

Monaville had its own post office from 1915 to 1994.

Monaville
1915–1994
19101970today

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.

RossmoreIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Monaville’s history

What year was Monaville founded?

The Monaville post office opened in 1915, 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 Wikipedia, 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.