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History · Albin

Albin’s post office opened in 1905, and 65% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1981 on and the census since 1940.

1905first post office
0on the National Register
65%homes built before 1940
1famous people
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Quick answers

How Albin began

When was Albin founded?

1905

The Albin post office opened in 1905, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 160 in 19402020 census: 169121 years
Founding year: the first Albin post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Albin’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 Albin are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Albin’s homes were built before 1938.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Albin’s history is told.

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The story so far

Albin, in brief

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

Albin is a town in Laramie County, Wyoming, United States. It is part of the Cheyenne Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 169 at the 2020 census. The town was incorporated in 1930.

Its first post office opened in 1905. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 181 to 169 (-7%).

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

Timeline

Albin, 1905 to 1981

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1905Post officeThe Albin post office opens
  3. 1928Born hereRichard R. Larson is born here
  4. 1981On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Albin, decade by decade

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On the map

Albin on the map, 1981 to 1991

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

Albin on the 1981 USGS mapAlbin on the 1991 USGS map1981Cheyenne sheet · 1:100,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Albin.

People over time

Albin, census by census

010020019401960198020002020Peak: 208

Between 118 and 208 people in every census since 1940.

9 censuses, 1940–2020.

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

Questions about Albin’s history

What year was Albin founded?

The Albin post office opened in 1905, 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), 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.