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History · Honcut

Honcut’s post office opened in 1856

Most of Honcut was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1993. Below: 1 old photo or paper and maps from 1912 on.

1856first post office
0on the National Register
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Quick answers

How Honcut began

When was Honcut founded?

1856

The Honcut post office opened in 1856, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Moores Station (1869), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 306170 years
Founding year: the first Honcut post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Honcut’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.On the map since 19123 editions of the USGS map, 1912 to 1973. Watch Honcut change.
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Start Honcut’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Honcut’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.+2Retake an old viewHoncut Bridge, Spanning South Honcut Cr…: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
On the map

Honcut on the map, 1912 to 1973

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

Honcut on the 1912 USGS mapHoncut on the 1952 USGS mapHoncut on the 1973 USGS map1912Honcut sheet · 1:31,680

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

The story so far

Honcut, in brief

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

Honcut (formerly, Moores Station) is a census-designated place in Butte County, California, United States. It lies at an elevation of 108 feet (33 m). Lower Honcut Road links the community to California State Route 70. Honcut is near the Yuba County line. Honcut was a stop on the California and Northern Railroad (later Southern Pacific) from the railroad's construction in the 1860s. In 1883, a sawmill was built in Honcut at the terminus of a V-flume from nearby Woodleaf, making Honcut "a bustling, active town." Honcut's post office was established in 1856 and moved back and forth several times between Butte and Yuba Counties, before being closed for good in 1943. Moores Station (named for...

Its first post office opened in 1856. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 370 to 306 (-17%).

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

Timeline

Honcut, 1856 to 1943

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1856Post officeThe Honcut post office opens
  3. 1869Post officeThe Moores Station post office opens
  4. 1892Post officeThe Moores Station post office closes
  5. 20th century
  6. 1912On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  7. 1943Post officeThe Honcut post office closes
By decade

Honcut, decade by decade

Date unknown1 to date
Honcut Bridge, Spanning South Honcut Creek, Loma Rica, Yuba County, CADate?Honcut Bridge, Spanning South Honcut Creek, Loma Rica…
Then & now

Stand where they stood

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.

Honcut Bridge, Spanning South Honcut Creek, Loma Rica, Yuba County, CA
Retake this viewHoncut Bridge, Spanning South Honcut Creek, Loma Rica, Yuba County, CA

Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Honcut’s page.

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Famous people

Famous people close to Honcut

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

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Charlotte StewartAmerican actress · b. 1941
Doug LaMalfaAmerican politician and businessman · b. 1960
Jack YermanAmerican sprinter · b. 1939
Adrian MolinaAmerican screenwriter · b. 1985
John Joseph MontgomeryAmerican aviation pioneer, inventor, scientist · b. 1858
Larry BagbyAmerican actor · b. 1974
Places that used to be

Lost post offices

Honcut had its own post office from 1856 to 1943. Another post office, Moores Station, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Honcut
1856–1943
Moores Station
1869–1892
18501940today

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

Questions about Honcut’s history

What year was Honcut founded?

The Honcut post office opened in 1856, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Sources

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 the Library of Congress (1), 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.