Wapello’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold just one old photo of Wapello. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusWapello is a city in and the county seat of Louisa County, Iowa, United States. The population was 2,084 at the time of the 2020 census. Wapello is part of the Muscatine Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 2,067 people in 2010, 2,084 in 2020. Half of its homes were built before 1963.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Wapello yet — the old photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Intro from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Population and housing: U.S. Census Bureau.
Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Wapello’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Wapello’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewBusinessCardAttorney1895, c. 1895: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Wapello, decade by decade
1990s
2 historic places in Wapello
2 places in Wapello are on the National Register of Historic Places, the country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
Where they are
Architectural styles
When they were listed
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as BusinessCardAttorney1895 (c. 1895) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (6). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.