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History · Yonah

Half of Yonah’s homes were built after 2000

Most of Yonah was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 2000.

0on the National Register
0.0%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Yonah’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 Yonah are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Yonah.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Yonah’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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Places that used to be

Lost post offices and burying grounds

Two other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Parks
1889–1907
Asbestos
1902–1913
18801950today
1cemetery inside Yonah
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US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

The story

How Yonah came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Yonah.

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Yonah is a name derived from the Cherokee language meaning "bear".

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Yonah, 1889 to 1913

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1889Post officeThe Parks post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1902Post officeThe Asbestos post office opens
  5. 1907Post officeThe Parks post office closes
  6. 1913Post officeThe Asbestos post office closes
By decade

Yonah, decade by decade

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Famous people

Famous people close to Yonah

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

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Chase ElliottAmerican stock car racing driver · b. 1995
Margaret Woodrow WilsonActing First Lady of the United States · b. 1886
Zell MillerAmerican politician · b. 1932
Doug CollinsAmerican lawyer and politician · b. 1966
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Dale DavisAmerican basketball player · b. 1969
Paul AndersonAmerican weightlifter · b. 1932

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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 Wikimedia Commons (6), 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.