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History · Windsor Heights

Windsor Heights’ post office opened in 1927, and 60% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1902 on and the census since 2000.

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How Windsor Heights began

When was Windsor Heights founded?

1927

The Windsor Heights post office opened in 1927, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 431 in 20002020 census: 36199 years
Founding year: the first Windsor Heights post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Windsor Heights’ 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 Windsor Heights are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Windsor Heights’ homes were built before 1938.On the map since 19028 editions of the USGS map, 1902 to 1997. Watch Windsor Heights change.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Windsor Heights’s history is told.

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The story so far

Windsor Heights, in brief

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

Windsor Heights is a village in Brooke County, West Virginia, United States. It is part of the Weirton-Steubenville metropolitan area. The population was 361 at the 2020 census. Grace Davis was the mayor as of June 2017. Windsor Heights was incorporated in 1989.

Its first post office opened in 1927. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 423 to 361 (-15%).

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

On the map

Windsor Heights on the map, 1902 to 1997

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

Windsor Heights on the 1902 USGS mapWindsor Heights on the 1935 USGS mapWindsor Heights on the 1942 USGS mapWindsor Heights on the 1957 USGS mapWindsor Heights on the 1968 USGS mapWindsor Heights on the 1978 USGS mapWindsor Heights on the 1985 USGS mapWindsor Heights on the 1997 USGS map1902Wheeling 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 Windsor Heights.

By decade

Windsor Heights, decade by decade

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2022-09-09 17 56 58 UTC minus 4 Aerial view looking northward up the Ohio River along the Ohio and West Virginia border…20222022-09-09 17 56 58 UTC minus 4 Aerial view looking n…
People over time

Windsor Heights, census by census

010020030040020002020Peak: 431

Between 361 and 431 people in every census since 2000.

3 censuses, 2000–2020.

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

Famous people

Famous people close to Windsor Heights

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

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John HavlicekAmerican basketball player · b. 1940
John CorbettAmerican actor and country music singer · b. 1961
Rob GarrisonAmerican actor · b. 1960
William Dean HowellsAmerican author, critic, and playwright · b. 1837
Glenn DavisAmerican track athlete and football player · b. 1934
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George HerbigAmerican astronomer · b. 1920
Places that used to be

Places now gone

Windsor Heights’s post office has been open since 1927.

Gone or out of use
Windsor Heights Schoolschool

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Questions about Windsor Heights’ history

What year was Windsor Heights founded?

The Windsor Heights post office opened in 1927, 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 (1), 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.