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History · Bon Air

Bon Air’s post office opened in 1908, and 14% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1958 on and the census since 1940.

1908first post office
0on the National Register
14%homes built before 1940
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How Bon Air began

When was Bon Air founded?

1908

The Bon Air post office opened in 1908, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 371 in 19402020 census: 172118 years
Founding year: the first Bon Air post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Bon Air’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 Bon Air are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The story so far

Bon Air, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Bon Air yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Bon Air is a town in Talladega County, Alabama, United States. It incorporated in 1932. As of the 2020 census, Bon Air had a population of 172.

Its first post office opened in 1908. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 116 to 172 (+48%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

By decade

Bon Air, decade by decade

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On the map

Bon Air on the map, 1958 to 1972

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

Bon Air on the 1958 USGS mapBon Air on the 1972 USGS map1958Childersburg 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 Bon Air.

People over time

Bon Air, census by census

010020030040019401960198020002020Peak: 371

Between 91 and 371 people in every census since 1940.

9 censuses, 1940–2020.

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

Questions about Bon Air’s history

What year was Bon Air founded?

The Bon Air post office opened in 1908, 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 (2), 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.