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History · Keswick

Keswick’s post office opened in 1896

Most of Keswick was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 2010. Below: maps from 1944 on.

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0on the National Register
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How Keswick began

When was Keswick founded?

1896

The Keswick post office opened in 1896, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Taylor (1897), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 188130 years
Founding year: the first Keswick post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Keswick’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 Keswick are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Keswick’s history is told.

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The story

How Keswick came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Keswick.

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The town was catastrophically damaged by the 2018 Carr Fire, which destroyed all but two homes.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Keswick, 1896 to 1944

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1896Post officeThe Keswick post office opens
  3. 1897Post officeThe Taylor post office opens
  4. 20th century
  5. 1922Post officeThe Taylor post office closes
  6. 1923Post officeThe Keswick post office closes
  7. 1944On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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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

Keswick on the map, 1944 to 1969

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

Keswick on the 1944 USGS mapKeswick on the 1957 USGS mapKeswick on the 1969 USGS map1944Redding 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 Keswick.

Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners and places now gone

Keswick had its own post office from 1896 to 1923. Another post office, Taylor, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Keswick
1896–1923
Taylor
1897–1922
18901960today
Hamlets and corners on the map
HogtownKett
Gone or out of use
Alice Consolidated MinemineBlack Spider MinemineBunker Hill MinemineCompton MinemineKeswick Hydraulic PitsmineKeswick SchoolschoolKett Pitmine

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

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Shasta1 historic placeB−Redding5 historic placesC+

Questions about Keswick’s history

What year was Keswick founded?

The Keswick post office opened in 1896, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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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, 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.