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History · Many Farms

Half of Many Farms’ homes were built after 1989

Most of Many Farms was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1989. Below: maps from 1968 on and the census since 2000.

0on the National Register
0.0%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Many Farms’ 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 Many Farms are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The story

How Many Farms came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Many Farms.

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Many Farms is an English translation of the Navajo name of the area and is descriptive. The farms became fully irrigated in 1937.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

By decade

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Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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On the map

Many Farms on the map, 1968 to 1984

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

Many Farms on the 1968 USGS mapMany Farms on the 1984 USGS map1968Many Farms 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 Many Farms.

People over time

Many Farms, census by census

02004006008001,0001,2001,4001,60020002020Peak: 1,548

Between 1,243 and 1,548 people in every census since 2000.

3 censuses, 2000–2020.

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

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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 Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia) 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.