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History · Hollister

Hollister’s post office opened in 1910, and 1 of its places is on the National Register

Most of Hollister was built recently: 4% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1992. Its Register listing is the Hollister School. Below: maps from 1965 on and the census since 1920.

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Quick answers

How Hollister began

When was Hollister founded?

1910

The Hollister post office opened in 1910, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 159 in 19202020 census: 243116 years
Founding year: the first Hollister post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Hollister’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 Hollister are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Shrank, then grewLost two-thirds of its people between 1920 and 1970, then grew 4-fold.
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Start Hollister’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Hollister’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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People over time

Hollister, census by census

0100200300192019401960198020002020159 in 1920Low: 57

Lost two-thirds of its people between 1920 and 1970, then grew 4-fold.

11 censuses, 1920–2020.

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

The story so far

Hollister, in brief

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

Hollister is a city in Twin Falls County, Idaho, United States. The population was 272 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Twin Falls, Idaho Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Its first post office opened in 1910. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 272 to 243 (-11%).

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

Timeline

Hollister, 1910 to 2010

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1910Post officeThe Hollister post office opens
  3. 1955Post officeThe Hollister post office closes
  4. 1965On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  5. 21st century
  6. 2010CensusPopulation peaks at 272
By decade

Hollister, decade by decade

Today2 recent
Hollister, Idaho2023Hollister, IdahoIDMap-doton-Hollister2004IDMap-doton-Hollister
On the map

Hollister on the map, 1965 to 1992

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

Hollister on the 1965 USGS mapHollister on the 1992 USGS map1965Hollister 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 Hollister.

On the National Register

1 historic place in Hollister

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

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts
first listed
1991
Hollister School
Hollister School
Buildings

Architectural styles listings

Bungalow/Craftsman1
All 1 listings
Hollister SchoolBuilding · listed 1991

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

Famous people

Famous people close to Hollister

Nobody well known was born in Hollister 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
Places that used to be

Lost post offices

Hollister had its own post office from 1910 to 1955.

Hollister
1910–1955
19101970today

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

Questions about Hollister’s history

What year was Hollister founded?

The Hollister post office opened in 1910, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Hollister?

One place: the Hollister School (listed 1991).

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 (2), the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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.