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History · Tishomingo

Tishomingo’s post office opened in 1907

Most of Tishomingo was built recently: 8% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1970. Below: 2 old photos and papers, maps from 1936 on, and the census since 1910.

1907first post office
0on the National Register
8%homes built before 1940
2old photos & papers
2famous people
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From Tishomingo’s archive · credits on each photo
Quick answers

How Tishomingo began

When was Tishomingo founded?

1907

The Tishomingo post office opened in 1907, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 212 in 19102020 census: 370119 years
Founding year: the first Tishomingo post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Tishomingo’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenOnly 2 old photos are in the public archives. The rest are in attics and albums.
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Start Tishomingo’s collection

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

Decades since 1900 with photos
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1 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Date a photo1 archive item has no date. Guess the decade.+2Retake an old viewTishomingo Filling Station: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
The story

How Tishomingo came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Tishomingo.

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Tishomingo is named for Tishomingo, who signed the Treaty of Pontotoc in 1832. He served with Major-General Anthony Wayne against the Shawnees in the Northwest Territory and received a silver medal from President George Washington. During the War of 1812, he served under Andrew Jackson. After his service in the military, he retired to become a farmer until white settlers came onto his land. In 1837, a final treaty forced the Chickasaws to move to the Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma. Tishomingo died of smallpox on the Trail of Tears and is buried in Arkansas somewhere near Little Rock. His son, Iuka, is the namesake of the county seat of Tishomingo County, Mississippi.

ChaptersNational Register of Historic Places

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Tishomingo, 1907 to 1939

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1907Post officeThe Tishomingo post office opens
  3. 1921Born hereQuinton Claunch is born here
  4. 1930Born hereDolan Nichols is born here
  5. 1936On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  6. 1939In the archiveTishomingo Filling Station
By decade

Tishomingo, decade by decade

One decade in the archive so far: the 1930s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

1930s1 item
Tishomingo Filling Station1939Tishomingo Filling Station
1940s–1990snothing yet
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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Date unknown1 to date
Butler Dogtrot, Old Natchez TraceDate?Butler Dogtrot, Old Natchez Trace
Today10 recent
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On the map

Tishomingo on the map, 1936 to 1984

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

Tishomingo on the 1936 USGS mapTishomingo on the 1950 USGS mapTishomingo on the 1984 USGS map1936Tishomingo 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 Tishomingo.

Then & now

Stand where they stood

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.

Tishomingo Filling Station
Retake this viewTishomingo Filling Station, 1939

Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Tishomingo’s page.

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People over time

Tishomingo, census by census

0100200300400192019401960198020002020Peak: 423

Between 212 and 423 people in every census since 1910.

12 censuses, 1910–2020.

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

Famous people

2 famous people were born in Tishomingo

Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.

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Quinton ClaunchAmerican musician, songwriter, record producer … · b. 1921
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Dolan NicholsAmerican baseball player · b. 1930

Questions about Tishomingo’s history

What year was Tishomingo founded?

The Tishomingo post office opened in 1907, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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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 (11), the Library of Congress (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.