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History · Coffee Creek

Half of Coffee Creek’s homes were built after 1980

Most of Coffee Creek was built recently: 3% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1980. Below: maps from 1955 on.

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What stands out about Coffee Creek’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 Coffee Creek are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The story so far

Coffee Creek, in brief

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

Coffee Creek is a census-designated place located within Trinity County in the U.S. state of California. It is located just north of where Coffee Creek flows into the Trinity River along the Trinity Heritage Scenic Byway (California State Route 3) and is the most northern community in Trinity County. It contains Coffee Creek Elementary School. Coffee Creek Road originates at SR 3, offering access to the interior of the Trinity Alps; the dirt road is 20 miles long and only usable by high-clearance vehicles. Coffee Creek sits at an elevation of 2,495 feet (760 m). The community's population was 152 as of the 2020 census, down from 217 from the 2010 census.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 217 to 152 (-30%).

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

Timeline

Coffee Creek, 1882 to 1955

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1882Post officeThe Carrville post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1943Post officeThe Carrville post office closes
  5. 1955On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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

Coffee Creek on the map, 1955 to 1998

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

Coffee Creek on the 1955 USGS mapCoffee Creek on the 1969 USGS mapCoffee Creek on the 1986 USGS mapCoffee Creek on the 1998 USGS map1955Bonanza King 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 Coffee Creek.

Famous people

Famous people close to Coffee Creek

Nobody well known was born in Coffee Creek itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Anita LoosAmerican actress and writer · b. 1888
Ann LittleActress · b. 1891
Harold MullerAmerican sportsman · b. 1901
Pamela CoursonAmerican artist and common-law wife of Jim Morr… · b. 1946
D. J. WilsonAmerican basketball player · b. 1996
Terry HuntingdonAmerican beauty queen · b. 1940
Places that used to be

Lost post offices and old corners

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

Hamlets and corners on the map
Carrville

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 U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, 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.