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From Wikipedia’s history of Falcon.
Falcon Tabernacle was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
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History · Falcon
Falcon’s post office opened in 1893, and 11% of its homes were built before 1940
Its Register listing is the Falcon Tabernacle. Below: maps from 1974 on and the census since 1920.
1893first post office
1on the National Register
11%homes built before 1940
Quick answers
How Falcon began
When was Falcon founded?
1893
The Falcon post office opened in 1893, the earliest record of the town by name.
First census: 200 in 19202020 census: 324133 years
Founding year: the first Falcon post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓
What stands out about Falcon’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
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Start Falcon’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Falcon’s history is told.
Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.Timeline
Falcon, 1893 to 1974
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
- 19th century
- 1893Post officeThe Falcon post office opens
- 1898
BuiltFalcon Tabernacle is built - 20th century
- 1974
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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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Falcon on the map, 1974 to 1986
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Falcon. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1974Wade sheet · 1:24,000U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Falcon.
On the National Register
1 historic place in Falcon
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts
first listed
1983
Falcon Tabernacle
Buildings
Architectural styles listings
Octagon Form1
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
People over time
Falcon, census by census
Between 200 and 357 people in every census since 1920.
11 censuses, 1920–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Falcon’s Wikipedia page.
Questions about Falcon’s history
What year was Falcon founded?
The Falcon post office opened in 1893, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
What is on the National Register in Falcon?
One place: the Falcon Tabernacle (listed 1983).
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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 the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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.