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History · Plummer

Plummer’s post office opened in 1903, and 24% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1918 on and the census since 1910.

1903first post office
0on the National Register
24%homes built before 1940
1famous people
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How Plummer began

When was Plummer founded?

1903

The Plummer post office opened in 1903, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 139 in 19102020 census: 276123 years
Founding year: the first Plummer post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Plummer’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 Plummer are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Plummer’s history is told.

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The story

How Plummer came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Plummer.

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A post office called Plummer has been in operation since 1903. The city was named for Charles A. Plummer, who established two mills near the original town site.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Plummer, 1903 to 1961

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1903Post officeThe Plummer post office opens
  3. 1918On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  4. 1961Born hereLorie Skjerven Gildea is born here
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On the map

Plummer on the map, 1918 to 1964

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

Plummer on the 1918 USGS mapPlummer on the 1964 USGS map1918Terrebonne 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 Plummer.

People over time

Plummer, census by census

0100200300192019401960198020002020Peak: 353

Between 139 and 353 people in every census since 1910.

12 censuses, 1910–2020.

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

Questions about Plummer’s history

What year was Plummer founded?

The Plummer post office opened in 1903, 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, 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.