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More historic than 11% of U.S. towns · #25 of 28 in Wyoming. What drives it
Most of Evansville was built recently: 6% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 2002. Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1951 on, and the census since 1930.
The Evansville post office opened in 1923, the earliest record of the town by name.
More historic than 11% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Evansville is more historic than 11% of U.S. towns, #25 of 28 in Wyoming. Its share of homes from before 1940 holds the grade up; its age pulls it down.
Wyoming towns list more on the Register than most of the country (a typical Wyoming town has 25.1 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Evansville’s 0.0 sits below most of its state (16% of Wyoming towns have fewer) while its 0 listings outnumber those of 23% of U.S. towns.
Founding year: the first post office (other dates in Quick answers). Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Evansville’s history is told.
From Wikipedia’s history of Evansville.
Evans settled in the area in 1902, and built a successful ranch. From 1918 to 1920, portions of the ranch were sold to the Socony-Mobil and Texas Oil Companies.
The Evansville Post Office was established in October 1923. Henry F. Beeman was the first postmaster.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Evansville, cut from the printed page as they were published.
The Town of Evansville The town of Evansville, on the Yellowstone highway, three miles east from Casper, is the newest town in Natrona county, but by no means of the least importance. The sale of Evansville town lots was commenced in March, 1922, and on August 10 the entire group of lots, consisting of 222, had been sold, with the exception of one. The demand for lots in the new town was so great that an addition of 137 lots were platted adjoining the original townsite on
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of a modern oil refining plant. In addition to these 600 men who were working on the refinery plant, there was a large force of carpenters, masons, cement workers and other workmen busy in the erection of business houses, shops and residences in the town of Evansville, which is in close proximity to the refinery. The Central Pipeline company is the carrier of the crude oil from the Salt Creek field to the Texas company's plant, and on October 8, 1922, the first oil entered the Salt Creek end of the line and within
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Evansville. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Evansville.
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Evansville’s page.
Retake this view · +15Grew from 174 people in 1930 to 2,746 in 2020, more than tenfold.
10 censuses, 1930–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Evansville’s Wikipedia page.
Nobody well known was born in Evansville itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Evansville’s post office has been open since 1923.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Evansville post office opened in 1923, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
Evansville is more historic than 11% of U.S. towns, #25 of 28 in Wyoming. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
6% of Evansville’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±4.4 points), against a typical 12% for a Wyoming town; the median home was built in 2002.
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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).
From Wikimedia Commons (7), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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