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Hague’s post office opened in 1902, and 28% of its homes were built before 1940

1 place in town is on the National Register, among them a historic district with 2 buildings. Below: maps from 1980 on and the census since 1910.

1902first post office
1on the National Register
28%homes built before 1940
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How Hague began

When was Hague founded?

1902

The Hague post office opened in 1902, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 183 in 19102020 census: 70124 years
Founding year: the first Hague post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Hague’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 Hague are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Boom and bustPeaked at 442 in 1940; 70 people lived here in 2020.Old housesHalf of Hague’s homes were built before 1958.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Hague’s history is told.

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People over time

Hague, census by census

0100200300400192019401960198020002020Peak: 442

Peaked at 442 in 1940; 70 people lived here in 2020.

12 censuses, 1910–2020.

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

The story

How Hague came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Hague.

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Hague was laid out in 1902 when the railroad was extended to that point. The community took its name from The Hague, in the Netherlands. A post office has been in operation at Hague since 1902.

Several historic sites in or near Hague are listed on the National Register of Historic Places: Old St. Mary's Cemetery, Wrought-Iron Cross Site, Wrought-iron cross sites of St. Aloysius Cemetery (Hague, North Dakota), and Wrought-iron cross sites of St. Mary's Cemetery (Hague, North Dakota). St. Mary's Catholic Church in Hague features works by artist Count Berthold von Imhoff.

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Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Hague, 1885 to 1980

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1885BuiltSt. Mary's Church Non-Contiguous Historic District is built
  3. 20th century
  4. 1902Post officeThe Hague post office opens
  5. 1940CensusPopulation peaks at 442
  6. 1980On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Hague, decade by decade

Today2 recent
Post office in Hague, North Dakota 6-11-20092009Post office in Hague, North Dakota 6-11-2009NDMap-doton-Hague2004NDMap-doton-Hague
On the map

Hague on the map in 1980

The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Hague.

Hague on the 1980 USGS map1980Hague 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 Hague.

On the National Register

1 historic place in Hague

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

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National Historic Landmarks
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historic buildings protected
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each building in a district counts
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1983
St. Mary's Church Non-Contiguous Historic Distr…
Districts

Architectural styles listings

Romanesque Revival1
Byzantine1
St. Mary's Church Non-Contiguous Historic DistrictRomanesque Revival · Built 1885

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Questions about Hague’s history

What year was Hague founded?

The Hague post office opened in 1902, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Hague?

One place: the St. Mary's Church Non-Contiguous Historic District (listed 1983).

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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 (2), 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.