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History · Fisher

Fisher’s post office opened in 1899, and 24% of its homes were built before 1940

1 place in town is on the National Register, among them a historic district with 73 buildings. Below: 5 old photos and papers, maps from 1942 on, and the census since 1980.

1899first post office
1on the National Register
24%homes built before 1940
5old photos & papers
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From Fisher’s archive · credits on each photo
Quick answers

How Fisher began

When was Fisher founded?

1899

The Fisher post office opened in 1899, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 325 in 19802020 census: 197127 years
Founding year: the first Fisher post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Fisher’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A historic districtThe Fisher Historic District takes in 73 historic buildings.Mystery photos5 old photos have no date. Neighbors can guess the decade.Old housesHalf of Fisher’s homes were built before 1961.
★ What stands out · On the National Register

1 listing protects 73 historic buildings

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
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none yet
historic buildings protected
73
each building in a district counts
first listed
1979
Fisher Historic District
Fisher Historic District
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Fisher Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1979

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Help out

Start Fisher’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Fisher’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.
Date a photo5 archive items have no date. Guess the decade.+2Retake an old viewTown of Fisher, U.S. Highway 171: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
The story

How Fisher came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Fisher.

Read it all →

Fisher was named for Oliver Williams Fisher and built between 1899 and 1901 by the Louisiana Long Leaf Lumber Company. It remained a company town until the sawmill was sold to Boise Cascade Corporation in 1966. In 1979, the remaining company buildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Fisher Historic District.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

By decade

Fisher, decade by decade

Date unknown5 to date
Town of Fisher, U.S. Highway 171Date?Town of Fisher, U.S. Highway 171Town of Fisher, Commissary, U.S. Highway 171Date?Town of Fisher, Commissary, U.S. Highway 171Town of Fisher, Opera House, U.S. Highway 171Date?Town of Fisher, Opera House, U.S. Highway 171Town of Fisher, Kansas City Southern Depot, U.S. Highway 171Date?Town of Fisher, Kansas City Southern Depot, U.S. High…Town of Fisher, 4-L's Company Office, U.S. Highway 171Date?Town of Fisher, 4-L's Company Office, U.S. Highway 171
Today1 recent
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On the map

Fisher on the map, 1942 to 1997

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

Fisher on the 1942 USGS mapFisher on the 1954 USGS mapFisher on the 1997 USGS map1942Florien 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 Fisher.

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.

Town of Fisher, U.S. Highway 171
Retake this viewTown of Fisher, U.S. Highway 171

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

Retake this view · +15
People over time

Fisher, census by census

0100200300198020002020Peak: 325

Between 197 and 325 people in every census since 1980.

5 censuses, 1980–2020.

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

Questions about Fisher’s history

What year was Fisher founded?

The Fisher post office opened in 1899, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Fisher?

One place: the Fisher Historic District (listed 1979).

Memory lane

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

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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 Wikimedia Commons (1), the Library of Congress (5), the National Register of Historic Places (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.