Guest, Sign inJoin

Post to Tilden

We’ll email a one-tap link to publish your post. No password, and nothing is public until you click it.
Already a member? Sign in
–Not graded
History · Tilden

Tilden’s post office opened in 1871, and 16% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: 1 old photo or paper.

1871first post office
0on the National Register
16%homes built before 1940
1old photo or paper
Add an old photoShare a memory
From Tilden’s archive · credits on each photo
Quick answers

How Tilden began

When was Tilden founded?

1871

The Tilden post office opened in 1871, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 750155 years
Founding year: the first Tilden post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Tilden’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.
★ What stands out · Help out

Start Tilden’s collection

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

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Date a photo1 archive item has no date. Guess the decade.+2Retake an old viewSammuel Boyd House: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
The story so far

Tilden, in brief

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

Its first post office opened in 1871. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 934 to 750 (-20%).

By decade

Tilden, decade by decade

Date unknown1 to date
Sammuel Boyd HouseDate?Sammuel Boyd House
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.

Sammuel Boyd House
Retake this viewSammuel Boyd House

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

Retake this view · +15
Famous people

Famous people close to Tilden

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

See all →
Whitey HerzogAmerican baseball player and manager · b. 1931
David LuechtefeldAmerican politician · b. 1940
Earle GardnerAmerican baseball player · b. 1884
H
Herb HallAmerican baseball player · b. 1893
N
Nada RowandActress · b. 1936
N
Nick KahlAmerican baseball player · b. 1879

Questions about Tilden’s history

What year was Tilden founded?

The Tilden post office opened in 1871, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

Memory lane

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

Town Square →
Start a conversation
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 the Library of Congress (1), 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.