Guest, Sign inJoin

Post to South Wallins

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 · South Wallins

17% of South Wallins’ homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1919 on.

0on the National Register
17%homes built before 1940
Add an old photoShare a memory

What stands out about South Wallins’ 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 South Wallins are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.On the map since 19193 editions of the USGS map, 1919 to 1974. Watch South Wallins change.
★ What stands out · Help out

Start South Wallins’s collection

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

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
On the map

South Wallins on the map, 1919 to 1974

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

South Wallins on the 1919 USGS mapSouth Wallins on the 1954 USGS mapSouth Wallins on the 1974 USGS map1919Harlan sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of South Wallins.

The story so far

South Wallins, in brief

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

South Wallins is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Harlan County, Kentucky, United States. As of the 2020 census, South Wallins had a population of 838.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 859 to 838 (-2%).

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

By decade

No old photos in the archives yet

Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

Be the first to add onePhotograph a print flat, in daylight, no flash.
Add from your album
Famous people

Famous people close to South Wallins

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

See all →
Nick LacheyAmerican singer, actor, producer and television… · b. 1973
Morgan WallenAmerican country singer · b. 1993
John HensleyAmerican actor · b. 1977
W
Wallace JonesAmerican basketball player · b. 1926
Bernie BickerstaffAmerican basketball coach and executive · b. 1944
William A. StanfillAmerican politician · b. 1892
Places that used to be

Places now gone

Gone or out of use
Callihan Railroad StationlocaleTausley Railroad Stationlocale

Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Wallins CreekIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about South Wallins’ history

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 U.S. Geological Survey historical maps 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.