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More historic than 28% of U.S. towns · #176 of 263 in Georgia. What drives it
Most of Hiram was built recently: 0.4% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 2004. 2 places in town are on the National Register, among them a historic district with 4 buildings. Below: maps from 1891 on and the census since 1900.
The Hiram post office opened in 1881, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Nebo (1875), opened inside today’s city and later closed.
More historic than 28% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Hiram is more historic than 28% of U.S. towns, #176 of 263 in Georgia. Its National Register listings hold the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls it down.
Georgia towns list more on the Register than most of the country (a typical Georgia town has 10.0 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Hiram’s 9.6 sits near the middle of its state (53% of Georgia towns have fewer) while its 5 historic buildings outnumber those of 70% of U.S. towns.
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 →
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Hiram’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Hiram. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Hiram.
Hiram’s post office has been open since 1881. Another post office, Nebo, opened and closed inside today’s town.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
From Wikipedia’s history of Hiram.
The Georgia General Assembly incorporated the Town of Hiram in 1891. The city was named after Hiram Baggett, the town's first postmaster.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
2025New Harmony Primitive Baptist Church
2025New Harmony Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery
2025Maude P Ragsdale Public Library
2025Main Street Guns Gold & Pawn
2025Little Free Library at the Hiram Trailhead
2025Caboose at the Hiram Trailhead
2025Bartlett Masonic Lodge
2024Am general dj-5 and chevrolet c-1500 silverado
20242015 chevrolet silverado ltz crew cab longhorn editio…
20241969 ford f100 ranger and 1957 ford ranchero
2023Hiab moffett m8 nx series right
2023Hiab moffett m8 nx series left
20231996 chevrolet c-1500 silverado
20222003 ford e-450 aev observe
20222003 ford e-350 aev reverse
20222003 ford e series aev
20221971 ford f-350 custom holmes 440
20211956 Ford Fairlane Club Sedan IMG 0012
20211952 Chevrolet Styleline De Luxe 2-Door Sedan Model 2…
2020Takeuchi tb145 reverse
2020Takeuchi tb145 observe
2017Hodges 000369 171508 516320 4578
2017Hodges 000368 171507 516319 4578
2017Hodges 000367 171505 516316 4578
2016Mellow Mushroom in Hiram, Georgia, September 2016
2015Wellstar Paulding Hospital
2015Hiram, Georgia city hall
2015Hiram Georgia downtown
2015Downtown store fronts
2015Downtown store fronts - panoramio (1)The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Grew from 105 people in 1900 to 4,929 in 2020, more than tenfold.
13 censuses, 1900–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Hiram’s Wikipedia page.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Hiram post office opened in 1881, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
Hiram is more historic than 28% of U.S. towns, #176 of 263 in Georgia. 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.
Two places: the Hiram Colored School (listed 2001) and the Fannin-Cooper Farm (2012).
0.4% of Hiram’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate), against a typical 3.8% for a Georgia town; the median home was built in 2004.
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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 (30), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (2), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, 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.
