The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusClayton is a city in and the county seat of St. Louis County, Missouri, United States, that borders the west side of the independent city of St. Louis. The population was 17,355 at the 2020 census. Organized in 1877, the city was named after Ralph Clayton, a citizen who donated the land for the St. Louis County courthouse.
Clayton was established in 1877. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 15,939 to 17,355 (+9%). Half of its homes were built before 1954.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Clayton 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 Clayton’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Clayton’s history is told.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewPlat book of St. Louis County, Mi…, 1909: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Clayton, decade by decade
1990s
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Plat book of St. Louis County, Missouri [Page 68] [Clayton, County seat of St. Louis County, on surveys 1918 & 1919, & … (1909) 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.