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History · Beulah

Beulah’s post office opened in 1858

Most of Beulah was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1985. Below: maps from 1939 on and the census since 1930.

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How Beulah began

When was Beulah founded?

1858

The Beulah post office opened in 1858, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 506 in 19302020 census: 242168 years
Founding year: the first Beulah post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Beulah’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 Beulah came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Beulah.

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The land southwest of Beulah was owned by a Choctaw family in the 1830s. A series of lawsuits caused them to lose their land, and Charles Clark took ownership. Clark established the Doro Plantation during the late 1840s and early 1850s, which grew to over 5,000 acres (2,000 ha) and became the most prosperous slave-owning plantation in the region. It continued to operate after the end of slavery until 1913. During that time, the Mississippi River flowed next to Beulah along "Beulah Bend" (now Lake Beulah), and Clark was often visited by Mark Twain while writing Life on the Mississippi.

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Timeline

Beulah, 1858 to 1939

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1858Post officeThe Beulah post office opens
  3. 1871Born hereGuinn Williams is born here
  4. 20th century
  5. 1939On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Beulah, decade by decade

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Beulah, Mississippi2014Beulah, Mississippi
On the map

Beulah on the map, 1939 to 1970

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

Beulah on the 1939 USGS mapBeulah on the 1969 USGS mapBeulah on the 1970 USGS map1939Pace 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 Beulah.

People over time

Beulah, census by census

010020030040050019401960198020002020Peak: 506

Between 242 and 506 people in every census since 1930.

10 censuses, 1930–2020.

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

Questions about Beulah’s history

What year was Beulah founded?

The Beulah post office opened in 1858, 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 Wikimedia Commons (1), 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.