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History · Warm River

Warm River’s post office opened in 1907, and 80% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1965 on and the census since 1960.

1907first post office
0on the National Register
80%homes built before 1940
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How Warm River began

When was Warm River founded?

1907

The Warm River post office opened in 1907, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 20 in 19602020 census: 4119 years
Founding year: the first Warm River post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Warm River’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 Warm River are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Shrank, then grewLost two-thirds of its people between 1960 and 1980, then more than doubled.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Warm River’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

Warm River, census by census

0196019802000202020 in 1960Low: 2

Lost two-thirds of its people between 1960 and 1980, then more than doubled.

7 censuses, 1960–2020.

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

The story

How Warm River came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Warm River.

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Warm River was incorporated in the 1940s, in order to bring the small resort community into compliance with state law restricting liquor licenses to incorporated municipalities.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Warm River, 1907 to 1965

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1907Post officeThe Warm River post office opens
  3. 1924Post officeThe Warm River post office closes
  4. 1960CensusPopulation peaks at 20
  5. 1965On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Warm River, decade by decade

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On the map

Warm River on the map in 1965

The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Warm River.

Warm River on the 1965 USGS map1965Warm River 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 Warm River.

Famous people

Famous people close to Warm River

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

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Brad HarrisAmerican actor · b. 1933
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Heather MoodyAmerican water polo player and coach · b. 1973
Laurel Thatcher UlrichAmerican historian · b. 1938
George V. HansenAmerican politician · b. 1930
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Card WalkerAmerican businessman · b. 1916
Paul KrugerAmerican football player · b. 1985
Places that used to be

Lost post offices

Warm River had its own post office from 1907 to 1924.

Warm River
1907–1924
19001960today

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

Questions about Warm River’s history

What year was Warm River founded?

The Warm River post office opened in 1907, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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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 (1), Wikipedia, 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.