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History · Annada

Annada’s post office opened in 1880, and 63% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1930 on and the census since 1930.

1880first post office
0on the National Register
63%homes built before 1940
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How Annada began

When was Annada founded?

1880

The Annada post office opened in 1880, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 72 in 19302020 census: 14146 years
Founding year: the first Annada post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Annada’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 Annada are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Annada’s homes were built before 1938.Boom and bustPeaked at 110 in 1940; 14 people lived here in 2020.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Annada’s history is told.

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The story

How Annada came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Annada.

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A post office called Annada has been in operation since 1880. The community's name is an amalgamation of the first names of Ann and Ada Jamison, the daughters of a pioneer citizen.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

People over time

Annada, census by census

010019401960198020002020Peak: 110

Peaked at 110 in 1940; 14 people lived here in 2020.

10 censuses, 1930–2020.

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

Timeline

Annada, 1880 to 1940

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1880Post officeThe Annada post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1930On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  5. 1940CensusPopulation peaks at 110
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No old photos in the archives yet

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

Annada on the map, 1930 to 1993

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

Annada on the 1930 USGS mapAnnada on the 1942 USGS mapAnnada on the 1978 USGS mapAnnada on the 1993 USGS map1930Nebo 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 Annada.

Questions about Annada’s history

What year was Annada founded?

The Annada post office opened in 1880, 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.