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History · Jacob City

Jacob City was first counted by the census in 1990

Most of Jacob City was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1985. Below: maps from 1952 on and the census since 1990.

1990first census
0on the National Register
0.0%homes built before 1940
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How Jacob City began

When was Jacob City founded?

1990

Jacob City first appears in the census in 1990. Another post office, Jacob (1907), opened inside today’s city and later closed.

First census: 261 in 19902020 census: 21736 years
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What stands out about Jacob City’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 Jacob City are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The story

How Jacob City came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Jacob City.

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Jacob City's history as a non-indigenous settlement began in 1752, under Spanish Florida. But it wasn't until the early 19th century, under American possession, when many formerly enslaved African Americans moved from Webbville to isolate themselves from harassment from the white people there, most of whose residents moved to Marianna in 1882. Webbville no longer exists, but was located around the current location of U.S. 231 and State Road 73. Marianna was known as the "rich man's town", and no Black people were welcome. The first known settlement of Jacob City was by a white man named Jacob Jones, who accepted anyone from the African diaspora to be housed on his property. That is where Jacob City got its name, as they would tell their friends, "Let's go to Jacob's." As Black people arrived to escape oppression, they moved farther down and made horse wagon trails into dirt roads, formi…

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Timeline

Jacob City, 1907 to 1952

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1907Post officeThe Jacob post office opens
  3. 1919Post officeThe Jacob post office closes
  4. 1952On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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On the map

Jacob City on the map, 1952 to 1982

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

Jacob City on the 1952 USGS mapJacob City on the 1982 USGS map1952Campbellton sheet · 1:24,000

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

People over time

Jacob City, census by census

010020030020002020Peak: 281

Between 217 and 281 people in every census since 1990.

4 censuses, 1990–2020.

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

Famous people

Famous people close to Jacob City

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

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Faye DunawayAmerican actress · b. 1941
Norman ThagardUnited States Marine Corps officer, aviator and… · b. 1943
Donna D'ErricoAmerican actress · b. 1968
Johnny Mack BrownAmerican football player and actor · b. 1904
Artis GilmoreAmerican basketball player · b. 1948
Bobby GoldsboroAmerican pop and country singer-songwriter · b. 1941
Places that used to be

Lost post offices and old corners

Another post office, Jacob, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Hamlets and corners on the map
Jacobs

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

Questions about Jacob City’s history

What year was Jacob City founded?

The Jacob City post office opened in 1990, 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, 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.