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History · Hagerman

Hagerman’s post office opened in 1892, and 2 of its places are on the National Register

Most of Hagerman was built recently: 4% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1988. Its Register listings are the Morris Roberts Store and the Hagerman State Bank, Limited. Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1949 on, and the census since 1920.

1892first post office
2on the National Register
4%homes built before 1940
1old photo or paper
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From Hagerman’s archive · credits on each photo
Quick answers

How Hagerman began

When was Hagerman founded?

1892

The Hagerman post office opened in 1892, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 327 in 19202020 census: 968134 years
Founding year: the first Hagerman post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Hagerman’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenOnly 1 old photo is in the public archives. The rest are in attics and albums.
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Start Hagerman’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Hagerman’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
1 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Retake an old viewCCC Camp DG 60 near: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
The story so far

Hagerman, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Hagerman yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Hagerman is a city in Gooding County, Idaho, United States. The population was 968 at the 2020 census, up from 872 in 2010. The area is noted for its fossil beds and the Thousand Springs of the Eastern Snake River Plain Aquifer. Hagerman is home to a national fish hatchery, a university research station, and extensive aquaculture, assisted by an abundance of geothermal water for temperature regulation.

Its first post office opened in 1892. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 872 to 968 (+11%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

Hagerman, 1892 to 1949

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1892BuiltMorris Roberts Store is built
  3. 1892Post officeThe Hagerman post office opens
  4. 20th century
  5. 1936In the archiveCCC Camp DG 60 near
  6. 1949On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Hagerman, decade by decade

One decade in the archive so far: the 1930s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

1930s1 item
CCC Camp DG 60 near1936CCC Camp DG 60 near
1940s–1990snothing yet
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.
Add from your album
Today3 recent
Hagerman, Idaho2022Hagerman, IdahoHagerman State Bank2012Hagerman State BankIDMap-doton-Hagerman2004IDMap-doton-Hagerman
On the map

Hagerman on the map, 1949 to 1992

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

Hagerman on the 1949 USGS mapHagerman on the 1950 USGS mapHagerman on the 1978 USGS mapHagerman on the 1992 USGS map1949Hagerman 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 Hagerman.

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.

CCC Camp DG 60 near
Retake this viewCCC Camp DG 60 near, 1936

Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Hagerman’s page.

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On the National Register

2 historic places in Hagerman

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

places listed
2
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
3
each building in a district counts
first listed
1978
Morris Roberts Store
Morris Roberts Store, built 1892Hagerman State Bank, Limited
Buildings

Architectural styles listings

Renaissance Revival1
Morris Roberts StoreBuilt 1892
Hagerman State Bank, LimitedRenaissance Revival

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

People over time

Hagerman, census by census

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Grew from 327 people in 1920 to 968 in 2020.

11 censuses, 1920–2020.

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

Famous people

Famous people close to Hagerman

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

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Mark FeltWhistleblower who exposed the Watergate scandal · b. 1913
Marjorie ReynoldsAmerican actress · b. 1917
Sherry JacksonAmerican actress · b. 1942
Grant SawyerDemocratic Governor of Nevada, 1959 to 1967 · b. 1918
James F. Amos35th Commandant of the Marine Corps · b. 1946
April McClain-DelaneyAmerican politician · b. 1964

Questions about Hagerman’s history

What year was Hagerman founded?

The Hagerman post office opened in 1892, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Hagerman?

Two places: the Morris Roberts Store (listed 1978) and the Hagerman State Bank, Limited (1989).

Memory lane

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

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Sources

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 (4), Wikidata (2), the National Register of Historic Places (2), 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.