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Warfield’s post office opened in 1856

Most of Warfield was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1985. Below: maps from 1912 on and the census since 1880.

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Quick answers

How Warfield began

When was Warfield founded?

1856

The Warfield post office opened in 1856, the earliest record of the town by name. Wikidata gives 1982.

First census: 54 in 18802020 census: 264170 years
Founding year: the first Warfield post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Wikidata: 1982.The full story ↓

What stands out about Warfield’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 Warfield are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Boom and bustPeaked at 364 in 1990; 264 people lived here in 2020.On the map since 19125 editions of the USGS map, 1912 to 1992. Watch Warfield change.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Warfield’s history is told.

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People over time

Warfield, census by census

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Peaked at 364 in 1990; 264 people lived here in 2020.

9 censuses, 1880–2020.

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

On the map

Warfield on the map, 1912 to 1992

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

Warfield on the 1912 USGS mapWarfield on the 1926 USGS mapWarfield on the 1978 USGS mapWarfield on the 1989 USGS mapWarfield on the 1992 USGS map1912Naugatuck 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 Warfield.

The story

How Warfield came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Warfield.

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The city of Warfield developed in the early 1850s after a salt works was established by George Rogers Clark Floyd and John Warfield of Virginia. The post office was established on April 15, 1856, and was named after the latter of the two men. Floyd further developed the city as the shipping point for his coal mine, the first to open in future Martin County. Warfield served as the county seat from 1870 to 1873, when it was moved to Inez.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Warfield, 1856 to 1990

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1856Post officeThe Warfield post office opens
  3. 1876Born hereSouth Carolina "Carrie" Bronson Hatfield is born here
  4. 20th century
  5. 1912On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  6. 1990CensusPopulation peaks at 364
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Warfield, decade by decade

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Questions about Warfield’s history

What year was Warfield founded?

The Warfield post office opened in 1856, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records). Wikidata gives 1982.

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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 (7), 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.