More historic than 4% of U.S. towns · #567 of 638 in Florida. What drives it
Most of Flagler Beach was built recently: 0.2% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1985. Below: 3 old photos and papers, maps from 1944 on, and the census since 1930.
Founding year: the first Flagler Beach post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Wikidata: 1925.
History grade
What drives Flagler Beach’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Flagler Beach is more historic than 4% of U.S. towns, #567 of 638 in Florida. Its National Register listings hold the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls it down.
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HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Flagler Beach’s 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 Flagler Beach’s 0.0 sits below most of its state (33% of Florida towns have fewer) while its 0 listings outnumber those of 23% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from D− to D. The pre-1940 share (±0.4 points) is firm at this size. The founding year is the first post office, not a stated founding date; Wikidata’s 1925 falls in the same era, so the grade doesn’t depend on which one is used.
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 Flagler Beach’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Lost a third of its people between 1930 and 1940, then grew more than tenfold.
10 censuses, 1930–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Flagler Beach’s Wikipedia page.
The story so far
Flagler Beach, in brief
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Flagler Beach yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Flagler Beach is a city in Flagler and Volusia counties, United States. Its population was 5,160 at the 2020 census. Flagler Beach is part of the Deltona–Daytona Beach–Ormond Beach, FL metropolitan statistical area. It is named for oil tycoon and Florida railroad developer Henry Flagler, who was a key figure in the development of East Florida as resort and vacation destinations.
Its first post office opened in 1924. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 4,484 to 5,160 (+15%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Timeline
Flagler Beach, 1924 to 2020
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Flagler Beach. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1944Ormond 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 Flagler Beach.
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.
Retake this viewConnecticut -New Haven County - -Windham County- -- Delaware -entire state- -- District of Columbia -- Florida -Alachua…, 1940
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Flagler Beach’s page.
The Flagler Beach post office opened in 1924, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records). Wikidata gives 1925.
How does Flagler Beach rank for history?
Flagler Beach is more historic than 4% of U.S. towns, #567 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.
How old are the homes in Flagler Beach?
0.2% of Flagler Beach’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate), against a typical 0.6% for a Florida town; the median home was built in 1985.
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 Wikimedia Commons (12), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), 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.
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