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History · Cobb

Half of Cobb’s homes were built after 1970

Most of Cobb was built recently: 2% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1970.

0on the National Register
2%homes built before 1940
1famous people
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What stands out about Cobb’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 Cobb are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The story

How Cobb came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Cobb.

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The area is named for John Cobb, who settled in Cobb Valley in 1853. The first post office at Cobb opened in 1911.

Many of the community's homes were destroyed in September 2015 by the Valley Fire.

Chapters2015 fire

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Cobb, 1929 to 1967

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1929Post officeThe Hobergs post office opens
  3. 1948Born hereJayne Ann Krentz is born here
  4. 1967Post officeThe Hobergs post office closes
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No old photos in the archives yet

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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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners and places now gone

Another post office, Hobergs, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Hamlets and corners on the map
Hobergs
Gone or out of use
Hobergs Post Officepost office

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

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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, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, 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.