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History · College Station

College Station’s post office opened in 1979, and 1 of its places is on the National Register

Most of College Station was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 2011. Its Register listing is the Hanger Cotton Gin. Below: maps from 1935 on and the census since 2000.

1979first post office
1on the National Register
0.0%homes built before 1940
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Quick answers

How College Station began

When was College Station founded?

1979

The College Station post office opened in 1979, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Fourche (1856), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

First census: 766 in 20002020 census: 46947 years
Founding year: the first College Station post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about College Station’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 College Station are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how College Station’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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The story so far

College Station, in brief

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

Its first post office opened in 1979. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 600 to 469 (-22%).

Timeline

College Station, 1856 to 1979

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1856Post officeThe Fourche post office opens
  3. 1859Post officeThe Fourche post office closes
  4. 20th century
  5. 1935On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  6. 1979Post officeThe College Station post office opens
By decade

College Station, decade by decade

Today1 recent
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On the map

College Station on the map, 1935 to 1994

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

College Station on the 1935 USGS mapCollege Station on the 1945 USGS mapCollege Station on the 1954 USGS mapCollege Station on the 1961 USGS mapCollege Station on the 1970 USGS mapCollege Station on the 1986 USGS mapCollege Station on the 1994 USGS map1935Sweet Home 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 College Station.

On the National Register

1 historic place in College Station

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts
first listed
1976
Hanger Cotton Gin
Hanger Cotton Gin
Buildings
Hanger Cotton GinBuilding

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

People over time

College Station, census by census

020040060080020002020Peak: 766

Between 469 and 766 people in every census since 2000.

3 censuses, 2000–2020.

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

Places that used to be

Lost post offices and old corners

College Station’s post office has been open since 1979. Another post office, Fourche, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Fourche
1856–1859
College Station
1979–today
18501940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
FourchePicron

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Little Rock279 historic placesA−Sweet HomeIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about College Station’s history

What year was College Station founded?

The College Station post office opened in 1979, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in College Station?

One place: the Hanger Cotton Gin (listed 1976).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Sources

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 (1), the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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.