Elfers’ post office opened in 1909, and 2 of its places are on the National Register
More historic than 19% of U.S. towns · #235 of 638 in Florida. What drives it
Most of Elfers was built recently: 0.4% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1975. Its Register listings are the Charles B. Anderson House and the Samuel Baker House. Its Register listings are the Charles B. Anderson House and the Samuel Baker House. Below: maps from 1943 on.
Founding year: the first Elfers post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓
History grade
What drives Elfers’ History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Elfers is more historic than 19% of U.S. towns, #235 of 638 in Florida. Its National Register listings hold the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls it down.
C−
HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Elfers’ overall grade.
Few Florida towns list much on the Register (a typical Florida town has 0.0 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Elfers’ 1.3 sits above most of its state (74% of Florida towns have fewer) while its 2 listings outnumber those of 60% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from D− to C. The pre-1940 share (±0.3 points) is firm at this size. The founding year is the first post office, not a stated founding date.
Founding year: the first post office (other dates in Quick answers). Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →
What stands out about Elfers’ past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The area was known as the Baillie settlement until the Elfers post office was established on Dec. 14, 1909. Frieda Marie (Bolling) Eiland, the wife of the first postmaster, chose the name of the post office to honor a favorite uncle, whose last name was Elfers. Railroad service came to Elfers for the shipment of citrus in 1913. In 1915, the Elfers School opened; it was the first brick school in western Pasco County. A new building replaced it in 1966. The Elfers School red brick school has been converted into the Elfers CARES Center which celebrated a grand re-opening in 2013. The building now has a cafe, a "spacious auditorium", and is the home of the Avery Branch of the New Port Richey Public Library. Elfers was incorporated from 1925 to 1933.
The Elfers post office opened in 1909, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
How does Elfers rank for history?
Elfers is more historic than 19% of U.S. towns, #235 of 638 in Florida. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
What is on the National Register in Elfers?
Two places: the Charles B. Anderson House (listed 1996) and the Samuel Baker House (1997).
How old are the homes in Elfers?
0.4% of Elfers’ homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate), against a typical 0.6% for a Florida town; the median home was built in 1975.
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).
From the National Register of Historic Places (2), 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.
