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History · Johnstown

23% of Johnstown’s homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the BMU Bridge over Wind River. Below: maps from 1951 on.

1on the National Register
23%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Johnstown’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

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The story so far

Johnstown, in brief

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

Johnstown is a census-designated place (CDP) in Fremont County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 242 at the 2010 census.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 242 to 227 (-6%).

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

Timeline

Johnstown, 1907 to 1951

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1907Post officeThe Kinnear post office opens
  3. 1914Post officeThe Kinnear post office closes
  4. 1946Post officeThe Kinnear post office opens
  5. 1951On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Johnstown, decade by decade

Today1 recent
US Highway 26 - Wyoming2014US Highway 26 - Wyoming
On the map

Johnstown on the map, 1951 to 1978

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

Johnstown on the 1951 USGS mapJohnstown on the 1978 USGS map1951Mule Butte 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 Johnstown.

On the National Register

1 historic place in Johnstown

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

place listed
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National Historic Landmarks
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none yet
historic buildings protected
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each building in a district counts
first listed
1985
BMU Bridge over Wind River
BMU Bridge over Wind River
Structures
BMU Bridge over Wind RiverStructure

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

Places that used to be

Lost post offices and burying grounds

Another post office, Kinnear, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Kinnear
1907–1914
Kinnear
1946–today
19001960today
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Johnstown
AragonGrave of N B Kinnear

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

Questions about Johnstown’s history

What is on the National Register in Johnstown?

One place: the BMU Bridge over Wind River (listed 1985).

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