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History · Mount Moriah

Mount Moriah’s post office opened in 1867, and 38% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1947 on and the census since 1880.

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How Mount Moriah began

When was Mount Moriah founded?

1867

The Mount Moriah post office opened in 1867, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 103 in 18802020 census: 75159 years
Founding year: the first Mount Moriah post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Mount Moriah’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 Mount Moriah are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Boom and bustPeaked at 412 in 1900; 75 people lived here in 2020.Old housesHalf of Mount Moriah’s homes were built before 1958.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Mount Moriah’s history is told.

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People over time

Mount Moriah, census by census

010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020Peak: 412

Peaked at 412 in 1900; 75 people lived here in 2020.

14 censuses, 1880–2020.

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

The story

How Mount Moriah came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Mount Moriah.

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A post office called Mount Moriah was established in 1867, and remained in operation until 1983. The name most likely was named after Moriah, a place mentioned in the Hebrew Bible.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Mount Moriah, 1867 to 1983

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1867Post officeThe Mount Moriah post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1900CensusPopulation peaks at 412
  5. 1947On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  6. 1983Post officeThe Mount Moriah post office closes
By decade

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

Mount Moriah on the map, 1947 to 1984

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

Mount Moriah on the 1947 USGS mapMount Moriah on the 1984 USGS map1947Blythedale 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 Mount Moriah.

Places that used to be

Lost post offices

Mount Moriah had its own post office from 1867 to 1983.

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

Questions about Mount Moriah’s history

What year was Mount Moriah founded?

The Mount Moriah post office opened in 1867, 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.