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History · Tall Timbers

Tall Timbers’ post office opened in 1929, and 15% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: 1 old photo or paper and maps from 1892 on.

1929first post office
0on the National Register
15%homes built before 1940
1old photo or paper
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Quick answers

How Tall Timbers began

When was Tall Timbers founded?

1929

The Tall Timbers post office opened in 1929, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 45197 years
Founding year: the first Tall Timbers post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Tall Timbers’ past

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

A history waiting to be writtenOnly 1 old photo is in the public archives. The rest are in attics and albums.On the map since 18926 editions of the USGS map, 1892 to 1980. Watch Tall Timbers change.Old housesHalf of Tall Timbers’ homes were built before 1958.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Tall Timbers’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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On the map

Tall Timbers on the map, 1892 to 1980

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

Tall Timbers on the 1892 USGS mapTall Timbers on the 1901 USGS mapTall Timbers on the 1943 USGS mapTall Timbers on the 1953 USGS mapTall Timbers on the 1968 USGS mapTall Timbers on the 1980 USGS map1892Piney Point 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 Tall Timbers.

The story so far

Tall Timbers, in brief

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

Its first post office opened in 1929. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 462 to 451 (-2%).

By decade

Tall Timbers, decade by decade

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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.

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

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Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Piney Point2 historic placesB−

Questions about Tall Timbers’ history

What year was Tall Timbers founded?

The Tall Timbers post office opened in 1929, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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 the Library of Congress (1), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, 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.