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History · Assaria

Assaria’s post office opened in 1878, and 42% of its homes were built before 1940

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How Assaria began

When was Assaria founded?

1878

The Assaria post office opened in 1878, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Oban (1879), opened inside today’s city and later closed.

2020 census: 428148 years
Founding year: the first Assaria post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Assaria’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 Assaria are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Assaria’s homes were built before 1949.
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The story

How Assaria came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Assaria.

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Assaria was laid out in 1879. The first post office in Assaria was established in September 1879.

A railroad previously ran north–south through Assaria, but it was later abandoned.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Assaria, 1878 to 1887

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1878Post officeThe Assaria post office opens
  3. 1879Post officeThe Oban post office opens
  4. 1879Post officeThe Oban post office closes
  5. 1887Born hereGeorge Seanor Robb is born here
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Assaria, decade by decade

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Places that used to be

Lost post offices

Assaria’s post office has been open since 1878. Another post office, Oban, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Assaria
1878–today
Oban
1879–1879
18701950today

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

Questions about Assaria’s history

What year was Assaria founded?

The Assaria post office opened in 1878, 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 (2), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, 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.