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History · Elrosa

Elrosa’s post office opened in 1913, and 16% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1965 on and the census since 1940.

1913first post office
0on the National Register
16%homes built before 1940
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How Elrosa began

When was Elrosa founded?

1913

The Elrosa post office opened in 1913, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 187 in 19402020 census: 213113 years
Founding year: the first Elrosa post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Elrosa’s past

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

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The story

How Elrosa came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Elrosa.

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Elrosa was named after two granddaughters of one of its city council members, Ella and Rose Nichols.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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

Elrosa on the map, 1965 to 1986

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

Elrosa on the 1965 USGS mapElrosa on the 1986 USGS map1965Elrosa sheet · 1:24,000

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

People over time

Elrosa, census by census

010020019401960198020002020Peak: 214

Between 166 and 214 people in every census since 1940.

9 censuses, 1940–2020.

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

Places that used to be

Places now gone

Elrosa’s post office has been open since 1913.

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US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Questions about Elrosa’s history

What year was Elrosa founded?

The Elrosa post office opened in 1913, 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 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.