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History · Hartland

The history of Hartland

Below: maps from 1956 on.

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How Hartland came to be

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Hartland was named for two of the first pioneer settlers of the area, William Michael Hart, and his wife, Sarah Matilda Land. Hart and Land traveled by covered wagon to California sometime in the early 1850s. All five of their daughters, and one son were born in the Angel's Camp gold-mining area, where the Harts operated a small school for the Angel's camp miners' children. The 1870s saw the family living down south in the Tulare Co. towns of Venice, Kaweah & Mineral King (at the edge of the King's Canyon National Park), Orosi, Squaw Valley, and finally Eshom Valley in the 1880s. The town of Hartland was named for the couple, as a composite of both their last names.

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Hartland on the map, 1956 to 1993

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

Hartland on the 1956 USGS mapHartland on the 1987 USGS mapHartland on the 1993 USGS map1956Giant Forest 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 Hartland.

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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 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.