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History · Tina

Tina’s post office opened in 1884, and 25% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1917 on and the census since 1900.

1884first post office
0on the National Register
25%homes built before 1940
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How Tina began

When was Tina founded?

1884

The Tina post office opened in 1884, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 368 in 19002020 census: 139142 years
Founding year: the first Tina post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Tina’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 Tina are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Tina’s homes were built before 1952.On the map since 19243 editions of the USGS map, 1924 to 1978. Watch Tina change.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Tina’s history is told.

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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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The story

How Tina came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Tina.

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Tina was laid out in 1892, and named after Tina Gilchrist, the daughter of a railroad official. A post office called Tina has been in operation since 1884.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

On the map

Tina on the map, 1924 to 1978

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

Tina on the 1924 USGS mapTina on the 1952 USGS mapTina on the 1978 USGS map1924Hale 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 Tina.

By decade

Tina, decade by decade

Today6 recent
Tina-Avalon School2011Tina-Avalon SchoolTina-Avalon School, Highway 652011Tina-Avalon School, Highway 65The Tina-Avalon Dragons2011The Tina-Avalon DragonsOld Indian Burial Mound2011Old Indian Burial MoundHome of the Dragons^ Tina-Avalon School2011Home of the Dragons^ Tina-Avalon SchoolMOMap-doton-Tina2004MOMap-doton-Tina
Every building

Tina, building by building, 1917

Fire insurance maps drew every building, what it was made of and what it was used for, so insurers could price the risk of fire. Pick a sheet.

Tina fire insurance map, 1917, sheet 11917Sheet 1 of 1
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Sanborn Map Company, via the Library of Congress. Editions published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.

People over time

Tina, census by census

01002003004001900192019401960198020002020Peak: 368

Between 139 and 368 people in every census since 1900.

13 censuses, 1900–2020.

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

Questions about Tina’s history

What year was Tina founded?

The Tina post office opened in 1884, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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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 Wikimedia Commons (6), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and Sanborn fire insurance maps (Library of Congress). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.