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History · Coffee Springs

Coffee Springs’ post office opened in 1876

Most of Coffee Springs was built recently: 4% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1965. Below: maps from 1957 on and the census since 1910.

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How Coffee Springs began

When was Coffee Springs founded?

1876

The Coffee Springs post office opened in 1876, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 503 in 19102020 census: 206150 years
Founding year: the first Coffee Springs post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Coffee Springs’ past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

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The story so far

Coffee Springs, in brief

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

Coffee Springs is a town in Geneva County, Alabama, United States. It was incorporated in 1900 and is part of the Dothan, Alabama Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2020 census, Coffee Springs had a population of 206.

Its first post office opened in 1876. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 228 to 206 (-10%).

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

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On the map

Coffee Springs on the map in 1957

The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Coffee Springs.

Coffee Springs on the 1957 USGS map1957Coffee Springs 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 Coffee Springs.

People over time

Coffee Springs, census by census

0100200300400500192019401960198020002020Peak: 503

Between 173 and 503 people in every census since 1910.

12 censuses, 1910–2020.

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

Questions about Coffee Springs’ history

What year was Coffee Springs founded?

The Coffee Springs post office opened in 1876, 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 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.