Mountain Home’s post office opened in 1922, and 1 of its places is on the National Register
More historic than 22% of U.S. towns · #199 of 290 in North Carolina. What drives it
Its Register listing is the Moss-Johnson Farm. Most of Mountain Home was built recently: 1% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1989. Below: maps from 1935 on.
The Mountain Home post office opened in 1922, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Hillgirt (1885), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
2020 census: 3,490104 years
How historic is Mountain Home?
C−
More historic than 22% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
Founding year: the first Mountain Home post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).
History grade
What drives Mountain Home’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Mountain Home is more historic than 22% of U.S. towns, #199 of 290 in North Carolina. Its National Register listings hold the grade up; its age pulls it down.
C−
HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Mountain Home’s overall grade.
North Carolina towns list more on the Register than most of the country (a typical North Carolina town has 12.5 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Mountain Home’s 29.1 sits near the middle of its state (64% of North Carolina towns have fewer) while its 10 historic buildings outnumber those of 76% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from D to C+. The pre-1940 share (±1.5 points) is firm at this size. The founding year is the first post office, not a stated founding date.
Founding year: the first post office (other dates in Quick answers). Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →
What stands out about Mountain Home’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Mountain Home
Saint Matthews Episcopal ChurchShepherd Memorial Park
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
The story so far
Mountain Home, in brief
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Mountain Home yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Mountain Home is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Henderson County, North Carolina, United States. As of the 2020 census, Mountain Home had a population of 3,490. It is part of the Asheville Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Its first post office opened in 1922. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 3,622 to 3,490 (-4%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Timeline
Mountain Home, 1880 to 1953
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Mountain Home. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1935Hendersonville 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 Mountain Home.
On the National Register
1 historic place in Mountain Home
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
The Mountain Home post office opened in 1922, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
How does Mountain Home rank for history?
Mountain Home is more historic than 22% of U.S. towns, #199 of 290 in North Carolina. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
What is on the National Register in Mountain Home?
One place: the Moss-Johnson Farm (listed 1987).
How old are the homes in Mountain Home?
1% of Mountain Home’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±1.5 points), against a typical 4.1% for a North Carolina town; the median home was built in 1989.
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).
From the National Register of Historic Places (1), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, 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.
