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History · Manville

Manville’s post office opened in 1887, and 65% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1919 on and the census since 1920.

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Quick answers

How Manville began

When was Manville founded?

1887

The Manville post office opened in 1887, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 584 in 19202020 census: 92139 years
Founding year: the first Manville post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

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

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The story

How Manville came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Manville.

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A post office called Manville has been in operation since 1887. The town was named for H. S. Manville, a cattleman.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

By decade

Manville, decade by decade

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On the map

Manville on the map in 1981

The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Manville.

Manville on the 1981 USGS map1981Manville 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 Manville.

Every building

Manville, building by building, 1919

Fire insurance maps drew every building, what it was made of and what it was used for, so insurers could price the risk of fire. Pick a sheet.

Manville fire insurance map, 1919, sheet 11919Sheet 1 of 2
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Sanborn Map Company, via the Library of Congress. Editions published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.

People over time

Manville, census by census

0100200300400500600192019401960198020002020Peak: 584

Between 92 and 584 people in every census since 1920.

11 censuses, 1920–2020.

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

Questions about Manville’s history

What year was Manville founded?

The Manville post office opened in 1887, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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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), 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 Sanborn fire insurance maps (Library of Congress). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.