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The history of Pearsonville

Below: maps from 1954 on and the census since 2000.

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What stands out about Pearsonville’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 Pearsonville are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The story

How Pearsonville came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Pearsonville.

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Pearsonville was named for Lucy and Andrew Pearson, who founded the town on a 40-acre plot of land they purchased in 1960. The Pearson family started Pearson's Auto Wrecking, a vehicle towing and recovery business, in 1964. Lucy Pearson collected thousands of hubcaps, earning the title "the Hubcap Queen", In its heyday in the 1980s, Pearsonville had a post office, as well as a general store, restaurant, automobile parts store, 24-hour towing service, motorcycle racetrack (the Pearsonville Speedway) and a trailer park, and the town was known informally as the "hubcap capital of the world". Today, it is a ghost town, consisting of a gas station, convenience store, a small museum and antique store. The automobile salvage (Pearson's Auto Wrecking) business is still operational, and there is also an 18-foot-tall molded fiberglass sculpture of the "Uniroyal Gal".

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By decade

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On the map

Pearsonville on the map, 1954 to 1982

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

Pearsonville on the 1954 USGS mapPearsonville on the 1982 USGS map1954Little Lake 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 Pearsonville.

People over time

Pearsonville, census by census

020002020Peak: 27

Between 8 and 27 people in every census since 2000.

3 censuses, 2000–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Pearsonville’s Wikipedia page.

Famous people

Famous people close to Pearsonville

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

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Mark HoppusAmerican musician and record producer · b. 1972
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Jennifer O'DellAmerican actress · b. 1974
J. D. MartinAmerican baseball player · b. 1983
Brett BattlesAmerican writer · b. 1962
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Jerome DavisTrack and field athlete · b. 1977
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Jason MonksAmerican congressman in Idaho

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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, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia) 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.