Guest, Sign inJoin

Post to Gattman

We’ll email a one-tap link to publish your post. No password, and nothing is public until you click it.
Already a member? Sign in
–Not graded
History · Gattman

Gattman’s post office opened in 1887

Most of Gattman was built recently: 8% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1993. Below: maps from 1967 on and the census since 1900.

1887first post office
0on the National Register
8%homes built before 1940
Add an old photoShare a memory
Photo: formulanone from Huntsville, United States · CC BY-SA 2.0
Quick answers

How Gattman began

When was Gattman founded?

1887

The Gattman post office opened in 1887, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 111 in 19002020 census: 77139 years
Founding year: the first Gattman post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Gattman’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 Gattman are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Boom and bustPeaked at 186 in 1940; 77 people lived here in 2020.
★ What stands out · Help out

Start Gattman’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Gattman’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
People over time

Gattman, census by census

01002001900192019401960198020002020Peak: 186

Peaked at 186 in 1940; 77 people lived here in 2020.

13 censuses, 1900–2020.

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

The story so far

Gattman, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Gattman yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Gattman is a village in Monroe County, Mississippi. The population was 77 at the 2020 census, down from 90 in 2010.

Its first post office opened in 1887. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 90 to 77 (-14%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

Gattman, 1887 to 1967

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1887Post officeThe Gattman post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1940CensusPopulation peaks at 186
  5. 1967On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Gattman, decade by decade

Today1 recent
US278 East - Gattman Sign2018US278 East - Gattman Sign
On the map

Gattman on the map, 1967 to 1985

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

Gattman on the 1967 USGS mapGattman on the 1985 USGS map1967Sulligent sheet · 1:24,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Gattman.

Questions about Gattman’s history

What year was Gattman founded?

The Gattman post office opened in 1887, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

Memory lane

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

Town Square →
Start a conversation
Sources

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), 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.