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History · Round Hill Village

Half of Round Hill Village’s homes were built after 1975

Most of Round Hill Village was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1975. Below: maps from 1955 on.

0on the National Register
0.0%homes built before 1940
Photo: LittleT889 · CC BY-SA 4.0

What stands out about Round Hill Village’s past

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

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Start Round Hill Village’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Round Hill Village’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners and places now gone

Another post office, Hobart, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Hobart
1889–1901
Zephyr Cove
1930–today
18801950today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Elk PointHobartRound Hill
Gone or out of use
Hobart Post Officepost office

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

The story so far

Round Hill Village, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Round Hill Village yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Round Hill Village is a census-designated place (CDP) in northwestern Douglas County, Nevada, United States. As of the 2020 census, Round Hill Village had a population of 898. Prior to 2010, the community was part of the Zephyr Cove–Round Hill Village CDP.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 759 to 898 (+18%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

Round Hill Village, 1889 to 1955

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1889Post officeThe Hobart post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1901Post officeThe Hobart post office closes
  5. 1930Post officeThe Zephyr Cove post office opens
  6. 1955On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Round Hill Village, decade by decade

On the map

Round Hill Village on the map, 1955 to 1992

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

Round Hill Village on the 1955 USGS mapRound Hill Village on the 1969 USGS mapRound Hill Village on the 1974 USGS mapRound Hill Village on the 1982 USGS mapRound Hill Village on the 1992 USGS map1955South Lake Tahoe 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 Round Hill Village.

Famous people

Famous people close to Round Hill Village

Nobody well known was born in Round Hill Village itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Questions about Round Hill Village’s history

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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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 (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.