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History · Morral

Morral’s post office opened in 1877, and 49% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1903 on and the census since 1910.

1877first post office
0on the National Register
49%homes built before 1940
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How Morral began

When was Morral founded?

1877

The Morral post office opened in 1877, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 334 in 19102020 census: 373149 years
Founding year: the first Morral post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Morral’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 Morral are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.On the map since 19034 editions of the USGS map, 1903 to 1984. Watch Morral change.Old housesHalf of Morral’s homes were built before 1943.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Morral’s history is told.

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On the map

Morral on the map, 1903 to 1984

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

Morral on the 1903 USGS mapMorral on the 1960 USGS mapMorral on the 1970 USGS mapMorral on the 1984 USGS map1903Marion sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Morral.

The story

How Morral came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Morral.

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A post office called Morral has been in operation since 1877. The village was named after Samuel Morral, the original owner of the town site.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

By decade

Morral, decade by decade

Today6 recent
Neff Street elevator2015Neff Street elevatorMorral post office 433372015Morral post office 43337Morral United Methodist Church2015Morral United Methodist ChurchMorral Free Baptist Church, former2015Morral Free Baptist Church, formerMap of Marion County Ohio Highlighting Morral Village2015Map of Marion County Ohio Highlighting Morral VillageMapOHMap-doton-Morral2004OHMap-doton-Morral
People over time

Morral, census by census

0100200300400500192019401960198020002020Peak: 493

Between 334 and 493 people in every census since 1910.

12 censuses, 1910–2020.

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

Questions about Morral’s history

What year was Morral founded?

The Morral post office opened in 1877, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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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 (6), 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.