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History · Tyrone

Tyrone’s post office opened in 1992

Most of Tyrone was built recently: 6% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1991. Below: maps from 1912 on and the census since 1930.

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How Tyrone began

When was Tyrone founded?

1992

The Tyrone post office opened in 1992, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 482 in 19302020 census: 72934 years
Founding year: the first Tyrone post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Tyrone’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 Tyrone are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Shrank, then grewLost half of its people between 1930 and 1940, then more than doubled.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Tyrone’s history is told.

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People over time

Tyrone, census by census

02004006008001,00019401960198020002020482 in 1930Low: 257

Lost half of its people between 1930 and 1940, then more than doubled.

10 censuses, 1930–2020.

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

The story

How Tyrone came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Tyrone.

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The town was reportedly named by a railway vice president when the railroad passed through the area. It was named after Tyrone, Pennsylvania, where the V.P.'s mother lived. The towns on the railway in Texas County (see below) were 10 miles apart, either for the distance between railroad worker camps, or because of needs for water by locomotives at that distance apart. Nearby Shades Well (three miles northeast) was the trailhead for many cattle drives in the late 19th century. It was larger than Dodge City for a time, and still has mounds of broken glass from beer and whisky bottles consumed by drovers. The trailhead later moved again and it was abandoned.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Tyrone, 1967 to 1992

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1967On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  3. 1980CensusPopulation peaks at 928
  4. 1992Post officeThe Tyrone post office opens
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On the map

Tyrone on the map, 1967 to 1982

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

Tyrone on the 1967 USGS mapTyrone on the 1982 USGS map1967Tyrone 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 Tyrone.

Every building

Tyrone, building by building, 1912–1923

Fire insurance maps drew every building, what it was made of and what it was used for, so insurers could price the risk of fire. Pick a year, then a sheet.

Tyrone fire insurance map, 1912, sheet 11912Sheet 1 of 1
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Sanborn Map Company, via the Library of Congress. Editions published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.

Questions about Tyrone’s history

What year was Tyrone founded?

The Tyrone post office opened in 1992, 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, 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), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and Sanborn fire insurance maps (Library of Congress). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.