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Hulbert’s post office opened in 1903

Most of Hulbert was built recently: 2% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1981. Below: maps from 1948 on and the census since 1970.

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How Hulbert began

When was Hulbert founded?

1903

The Hulbert post office opened in 1903, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 505 in 19702020 census: 483123 years
Founding year: the first Hulbert post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Hulbert’s past

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

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The story

How Hulbert came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Hulbert.

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The Hulbert Store and Grist Mill was built in 1890 were built between the towns of Wagoner and Tahlequah in 1890. According to local legend, a white trapper from Kentucky named Benjamin Hulbert married a Cherokee woman and built a store on her allotted land. A settlement formed around it. The community moved to its present location after the turn of the 20th Century to be closer to the nearest railroad. A post office opened there May 4, 1903. The town of Hulbert incorporated on January 18, 1965. It became a city in 1996.

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Timeline

Hulbert, 1903 to 1984

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1903Post officeThe Hulbert post office opens
  3. 1940Born hereBarbara Staggs is born here
  4. 1948On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  5. 1984Born hereMatt Meredith is born here
By decade

Hulbert, decade by decade

Today2 recent
Clear Creek Monastery2010Clear Creek MonasteryDowntown2008Downtown
On the map

Hulbert on the map, 1948 to 1972

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

Hulbert on the 1948 USGS mapHulbert on the 1950 USGS mapHulbert on the 1972 USGS map1948Hulbert 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 Hulbert.

People over time

Hulbert, census by census

0100200300400500600700198020002020Peak: 633

Between 483 and 633 people in every census since 1970.

6 censuses, 1970–2020.

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

Famous people

2 famous people were born in Hulbert

Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.

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Barbara StaggsAmerican politician · b. 1940
Matt MeredithAmerican politician · b. 1984

Questions about Hulbert’s history

What year was Hulbert founded?

The Hulbert post office opened in 1903, 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 (2), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, 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.