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History · Lingle

Lingle’s post office opened in 1910, and 12% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1963 on and the census since 1920.

1910first post office
0on the National Register
12%homes built before 1940
1famous people
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How Lingle began

When was Lingle founded?

1910

The Lingle post office opened in 1910, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 363 in 19202020 census: 403116 years
Founding year: the first Lingle post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Lingle’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 Lingle are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Lingle’s homes were built before 1959.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Lingle’s history is told.

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The story

How Lingle came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Lingle.

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Lingle, Wyoming is on the Oregon Trail, and has Wyoming historical markers to commemorate the trail and the Oregon Trail Historic Byway passes through the town. Nearby are the Oregon Trail Ruts. The Old Texas Trail also is in Lingle.

On July 1, 2022, a canal near the town was breached. This canal breach caused the National Weather Service to issue four flash flood emergencies for the town.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Lingle, 1910 to 1963

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1910Post officeThe Lingle post office opens
  3. 1925Born hereBill Nation is born here
  4. 1963On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Lingle, decade by decade

Today2 recent
Patriotically painted bandshell2015Patriotically painted bandshellUS Highway 26 - Wyoming2014US Highway 26 - Wyoming
On the map

Lingle on the map, 1963 to 1990

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

Lingle on the 1963 USGS mapLingle on the 1990 USGS map1963Lingle 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 Lingle.

People over time

Lingle, census by census

0100200300400500192019401960198020002020Peak: 510

Between 363 and 510 people in every census since 1920.

11 censuses, 1920–2020.

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

Questions about Lingle’s history

What year was Lingle founded?

The Lingle post office opened in 1910, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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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 Library of Congress (1), Wikipedia, 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.