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History · Pleasant Hill

Pleasant Hill’s post office opened in 1846, and 11% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1941 on and the census since 1900.

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How Pleasant Hill began

When was Pleasant Hill founded?

1846

The Pleasant Hill post office opened in 1846, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 300 in 19002020 census: 617180 years
Founding year: the first Pleasant Hill post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Pleasant Hill’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 Pleasant Hill are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Boom and bustPeaked at 907 in 1960; 617 people lived here in 2020.Deep rootsA post office since 1846: 180 years of Pleasant Hill.
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Start Pleasant Hill’s collection

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

Decades since 1900 with photos
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People over time

Pleasant Hill, census by census

02004006008001,0001900192019401960198020002020Peak: 907

Peaked at 907 in 1960; 617 people lived here in 2020.

13 censuses, 1900–2020.

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

Timeline

Pleasant Hill, 1846 to 1960

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1846Post officeThe Pleasant Hill post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1941On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  5. 1960CensusPopulation peaks at 907
The story so far

Pleasant Hill, in brief

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

Pleasant Hill is a village in Sabine Parish in western Louisiana, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population of the village was 1,232. It is best known for the Battle of Pleasant Hill, a significant battle during the American Civil War on April 9, 1864.

Its first post office opened in 1846. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 723 to 617 (-15%).

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

By decade

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

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On the map

Pleasant Hill on the map, 1941 to 1989

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

Pleasant Hill on the 1941 USGS mapPleasant Hill on the 1957 USGS mapPleasant Hill on the 1989 USGS map1941Pelican 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 Pleasant Hill.

Questions about Pleasant Hill’s history

What year was Pleasant Hill founded?

The Pleasant Hill post office opened in 1846, 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 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.