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History · Aguila

Aguila’s post office opened in 1910, and 13% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1962 on, and the census since 1920.

1910first post office
0on the National Register
13%homes built before 1940
1old photo or paper
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Quick answers

How Aguila began

When was Aguila founded?

1910

The Aguila post office opened in 1910, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 174 in 19202020 census: 565116 years
Founding year: the first Aguila post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Aguila’s past

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

A history waiting to be writtenOnly 1 old photo is in the public archives. The rest are in attics and albums.Boom and bustPeaked at 798 in 2010; 565 people lived here in 2020.
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Start Aguila’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Aguila’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Date a photo1 archive item has no date. Guess the decade.+2Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
People over time

Aguila, census by census

0200400600800192019401960198020002020Peak: 798

Peaked at 798 in 2010; 565 people lived here in 2020.

4 censuses, 1920–2020.

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

The story

How Aguila came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Aguila.

Read it all →

Aguila was a stop on the Santa Fe, Prescott and Phoenix Railway. The former 1907 Aguila railroad depot is now located at the McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park in Scottsdale.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Aguila, 1910 to 2010

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1910Post officeThe Aguila post office opens
  3. 1962On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  4. 21st century
  5. 2010CensusPopulation peaks at 798
By decade

Aguila, decade by decade

Date unknown1 to date
Soil survey of Aguila-Carefree Area, parts of Maricopa and Pinal Counties, ArizonaDate?Soil survey of Aguila-Carefree Area, parts of Maricop…Book
Today3 recent
Scottsdale-Stillman Park-Aguila Depot-1907-22016Scottsdale-Stillman Park-Aguila Depot-1907-2Scottsdale-Stillman Park-Aguila Depot-19072013Scottsdale-Stillman Park-Aguila Depot-1907AguilaArizona2012AguilaArizona
On the map

Aguila on the map, 1962 to 1990

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

Aguila on the 1962 USGS mapAguila on the 1990 USGS map1962Aguila sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Aguila.

Questions about Aguila’s history

What year was Aguila founded?

The Aguila post office opened in 1910, 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 (4), Wikipedia, 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.