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History · Beaver Marsh

Beaver Marsh’s post office opened in 1927

Most of Beaver Marsh was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 2012. Below: maps from 1935 on.

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How Beaver Marsh began

When was Beaver Marsh founded?

1927

The Beaver Marsh post office opened in 1927, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 5299 years
Founding year: the first Beaver Marsh post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Beaver Marsh’s past

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The story so far

Beaver Marsh, in brief

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

Beaver Marsh is an unincorporated community in Klamath County, Oregon, United States. It is located on U.S. Route 97, about 6 miles south of Chemult. The Southern Pacific Cascade Line passes near the locale. As of the 2020 census, Beaver Marsh had a population of 52. Beaver Marsh was an important stagecoach stop on the Oregon Central Military Wagon Road. Beaver Marsh post office opened in 1927 and closed in 1928. The community is near the swamp of the same name.

Its first post office opened in 1927.

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

Timeline

Beaver Marsh, 1927 to 1935

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1927Post officeThe Beaver Marsh post office opens
  3. 1928Post officeThe Beaver Marsh post office closes
  4. 1935On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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On the map

Beaver Marsh on the map, 1935 to 1999

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

Beaver Marsh on the 1935 USGS mapBeaver Marsh on the 1941 USGS mapBeaver Marsh on the 1967 USGS mapBeaver Marsh on the 1979 USGS mapBeaver Marsh on the 1999 USGS map1935Chemult sheet · 1:125,000

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

Places that used to be

Lost post offices and places now gone

Beaver Marsh had its own post office from 1927 to 1928.

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

Questions about Beaver Marsh’s history

What year was Beaver Marsh founded?

The Beaver Marsh post office opened in 1927, 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 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.