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History · Hinton

Hinton’s post office opened in 1870, and 12% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1964 on and the census since 1910.

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How Hinton began

When was Hinton founded?

1870

The Hinton post office opened in 1870, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 329 in 19102020 census: 935156 years
Founding year: the first Hinton post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Hinton’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 Hinton are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Hinton’s history is told.

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The story

How Hinton came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Hinton.

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A post office called Hinton has been in operation since 1870. The city was named by a settler from Hinton, West Virginia. The current mayor, Kelly Kreber, is the second longest serving mayor in the towns history.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Hinton, 1870 to 1964

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1870Post officeThe Hinton post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1944Born hereRon Wieck is born here
  5. 1964On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Hinton, decade by decade

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On the map

Hinton on the map, 1964 to 1986

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

Hinton on the 1964 USGS mapHinton on the 1986 USGS map1964Hinton 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 Hinton.

People over time

Hinton, census by census

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Grew from 329 people in 1910 to 935 in 2020.

12 censuses, 1910–2020.

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

Questions about Hinton’s history

What year was Hinton founded?

The Hinton post office opened in 1870, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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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 (3), 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.