State Stamps: A Verified 50-State U.S. Statehood Index

50-state visual index

Select a state to jump to its verified record. The index includes Texas postage stamps, Florida postage stamps, Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, Michigan, Arizona, Hawaii and every other state within the same evidence standard.

What counts as a statehood stamp here

• The object must be a U.S. postage issue, not a state tax or revenue stamp.
• The issue record must explicitly connect the stamp to statehood, admission to the Union or ratification of the U.S. Constitution.
• Each state has one representative verified issue in this version; this is not a catalog of every U.S. stamp depicting that state.
• State seals, notary and address stamps, SNAP or food-stamp benefits, tourist stamps, decorative labels and rubber stamps are excluded.
• The separate Greetings from America state-themed series is not used as a substitute for a statehood commemoration.

USPS states that all 50 states have been commemorated on postage stamps. USPS also identifies StampsForever.com as a stamp-story website it launched in 2024; the individual records below come from that archive.

U.S. statehood stamps: verified 50-state table

How to read it: “Statehood” is the state’s historical admission or ratification date. “First day” is the stamp’s official issue date and location. The two dates answer different questions and are never treated as interchangeable.

Current availability is separate from postal history

As of 2026-09-10, the live Buy USPS Stamps catalog listed the 2026 Colorado Statehood Forever stamp product as in stock. Its price and stock can change, so use that product page for the current purchase decision. We make no current-stock claim for the other 49 historical records.

An archive record confirms an issue’s identity and history; it does not confirm a marketplace listing, condition, gum, cancellation, authenticity, price or collector value. Verify the exact item and seller before buying.

Method, sources and update rule

1. Use the USPS all-50-states statement to establish the complete state set.
2. Match every state to an individual statehood, ratification or anniversary issue in the USPS-launched Stamps Forever archive.
3. Record the displayed denomination or Forever service from the archive stamp image instead of inferring it from a historical postage rate.
4. Keep historical issue facts separate from current retailer inventory.
5. When a new official statehood anniversary issue appears, verify it at issue level before updating the relevant state row.

The representative image on this page is an original conceptual index graphic, not a reproduction of the 50 stamp designs. Row links identify the archive page and its source-hosted image; public visibility does not by itself grant permission to republish an image.

Continue state and postal-history research

Use the old U.S. stamps collecting and postal-history guide for broader identification, preservation and research methods. For a wider chronology, continue to the history of postage stamps.