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Hendrix’s post office opened in 1909

Most of Hendrix was built recently: 3% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1991. Below: maps from 1958 on and the census since 1920.

1909first post office
0on the National Register
3%homes built before 1940
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How Hendrix began

When was Hendrix founded?

1909

The Hendrix post office opened in 1909, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 130 in 19202020 census: 61117 years
Founding year: the first Hendrix post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Hendrix’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 Hendrix are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Boom and bustPeaked at 152 in 1950; 61 people lived here in 2020.
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People over time

Hendrix, census by census

0100192019401960198020002020Peak: 152

Peaked at 152 in 1950; 61 people lived here in 2020.

11 censuses, 1920–2020.

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

The story

How Hendrix came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Hendrix.

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Hendrix was named for the owner of a general store named James A. Hendrix. originally called Kemp City when the Missouri, Oklahoma and Gulf Railway (MO&G) bypassed the town of Kemp in 1908 while building a line to Texas. In 1910, residents petitioned the Oklahoma Corporation Commission to force the MO&G to build a side track and stop station called Kemp City at present-day Hendrix. The commission ordered the railroad to satisfy the request, but the MO&G appealed to the Oklahoma Supreme Court, which upheld the commission in 1911.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Hendrix, 1909 to 1958

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1909Post officeThe Hendrix post office opens
  3. 1950CensusPopulation peaks at 152
  4. 1958On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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On the map

Hendrix on the map, 1958 to 1980

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

Hendrix on the 1958 USGS mapHendrix on the 1980 USGS map1958Durant 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 Hendrix.

Questions about Hendrix’s history

What year was Hendrix founded?

The Hendrix post office opened in 1909, 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 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.