Founding year: the first Tyro post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).
History grade
What drives Tyro’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Tyro is more historic than 62% of U.S. towns, #100 of 290 in North Carolina. Its age holds the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls it down.
B
HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Tyro’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 Tyro’s 13.0 sits near the middle of its state (55% of North Carolina towns have fewer) while its 5 historic buildings outnumber those of 70% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from B− to A−. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±6.0 points). 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 Tyro’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
The story so far
Tyro, in brief
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Tyro yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Tyro is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) located 7 miles (11 km) west of Lexington and 24 miles (39 km) south of Winston-Salem in Davidson County, North Carolina, United States. As of the 2020 census, the community had a population of 3,753.
Its first post office opened in 1843. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 3,879 to 3,753 (-3%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
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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Lost post offices, places now gone and burying grounds
Tyro had its own post office from 1843 to 1845.
Tyro
1843–1845
18401930today
Gone or out of use
Saint Lukes Lutheran Churchchurch
3cemeteries and burying grounds inside Tyro
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US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Questions about Tyro’s history
What year was Tyro founded?
The Tyro post office opened in 1843, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
How does Tyro rank for history?
Tyro is more historic than 62% of U.S. towns, #100 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 Tyro?
4 listings: 3 buildings, among them the Capt. John Koonts Jr. Farm (listed 1984, the first), and 1 site. 5 historic buildings in all.
How old are the homes in Tyro?
6% of Tyro’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±6.0 points), against a typical 4.1% for a North Carolina town; the median home was built in 1990.
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 (4), 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.
