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History · Hartville

Hartville’s post office opened in 1882, and 24% of its homes were built before 1940

1 place in town is on the National Register, among them a historic district with 19 buildings. Below: maps from 1950 on and the census since 1910.

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Quick answers

How Hartville began

When was Hartville founded?

1882

The Hartville post office opened in 1882, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 235 in 19102020 census: 64144 years
Founding year: the first Hartville post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Hartville’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 Hartville are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Hartville’s homes were built before 1956.
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Start Hartville’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Hartville’s history is told.

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The story

How Hartville came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Hartville.

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During the Old West period, Hartville was the scene of multiple shootings. Many of the victims were cowboys and are buried at the town's Boot Hill.

Miners and Stockmen's Steakhouse & Spirits, the oldest business in the state of Wyoming, is located in Hartville. It is also one of the last remnants of the Old Fort Laramie Trading Post.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Hartville, 1882 to 1967

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1882Post officeThe Hartville post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1950On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  5. 1967Post officeThe Hartville post office closes
By decade

Hartville, decade by decade

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On the map

Hartville on the map, 1950 to 1990

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

Hartville on the 1950 USGS mapHartville on the 1978 USGS mapHartville on the 1990 USGS map1950Guernsey sheet · 1:24,000

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

On the National Register

1 listing protects 19 historic buildings

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
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none yet
historic buildings protected
19
each building in a district counts
first listed
2005
Sunrise Mine Historic District
Districts
All 1 listings
Sunrise Mine Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 2005

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

People over time

Hartville, census by census

0100200192019401960198020002020Peak: 246

Between 62 and 246 people in every census since 1910.

12 censuses, 1910–2020.

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

Places that used to be

Lost post offices and places now gone

Hartville had its own post office from 1882 to 1967.

Hartville
1882–1967
18801950today
Gone or out of use
Jehosophat Prospectmine

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

Questions about Hartville’s history

What year was Hartville founded?

The Hartville post office opened in 1882, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Hartville?

One place: the Sunrise Mine Historic District (listed 2005).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Sources

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 (12), the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, 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.