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History · Inkom

Inkom’s post office opened in 1903, and 16% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1971 on and the census since 1950.

1903first post office
0on the National Register
16%homes built before 1940
2famous people
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How Inkom began

When was Inkom founded?

1903

The Inkom post office opened in 1903, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 434 in 19502020 census: 792123 years
Founding year: the first Inkom post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Inkom’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 Inkom are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The story

How Inkom came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Inkom.

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The Shoshone Indians named the area around present day Inkom "Ingacom", a reference to the rock formation on the eastern side of town, where one can see the remnants of the "Red Hare". It was photographed in 1930 after the "ears" had been knocked off by vandals. The local creek was originally called "Rabbit River" but later changed to Rapid Creek as it is called today. The "Red Hare" is still there today.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Inkom, 1903 to 1971

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1903Post officeThe Inkom post office opens
  3. 1933Born hereLin Whitworth is born here
  4. 1967Born hereJacob Anderson-Minshall is born here
  5. 1971On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Inkom, decade by decade

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INGACOM 32012INGACOM 3INGACOM 22012INGACOM 2Inkom2010InkomIDMap-doton-Inkom2004IDMap-doton-Inkom
On the map

Inkom on the map, 1971 to 1984

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

Inkom on the 1971 USGS mapInkom on the 1984 USGS map1971Inkom 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 Inkom.

People over time

Inkom, census by census

02004006008001960198020002020Peak: 854

Between 434 and 854 people in every census since 1950.

8 censuses, 1950–2020.

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

Famous people

2 famous people were born in Inkom

Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.

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Jacob Anderson-MinshallAmerican author · b. 1967
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Lin WhitworthAmerican politician · b. 1933

Questions about Inkom’s history

What year was Inkom founded?

The Inkom post office opened in 1903, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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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 (4), 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.