Guest, Sign inJoin

Post to Garibaldi

We’ll email a one-tap link to publish your post. No password, and nothing is public until you click it.
Already a member? Sign in
–Not graded
History · Garibaldi

Garibaldi’s post office opened in 1870, and 31% of its homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the US Coast Guard Station-Tillamook Bay. Below: 2 old photos and papers, maps from 1929 on, and the census since 1930.

1870first post office
1on the National Register
31%homes built before 1940
2old photos & papers
Add an old photoShare a memory
From Garibaldi’s archive · credits on each photo
Quick answers

How Garibaldi began

When was Garibaldi founded?

1870

The Garibaldi post office opened in 1870, the earliest record of the town by name. Wikidata gives 1946.

First census: 213 in 19302020 census: 830156 years
Founding year: the first Garibaldi post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Wikidata: 1946.The full story ↓

What stands out about Garibaldi’s past

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

A history waiting to be writtenOnly 2 old photos are in the public archives. The rest are in attics and albums.Boom and bustPeaked at 1,249 in 1950; 830 people lived here in 2020.
★ What stands out · Help out

Start Garibaldi’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Garibaldi’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
1 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Retake an old viewGaribaldi, Oregon: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
People over time

Garibaldi, census by census

02004006008001,0001,20019401960198020002020Peak: 1,249

Peaked at 1,249 in 1950; 830 people lived here in 2020.

9 censuses, 1930–2020.

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

The story

How Garibaldi came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Garibaldi.

Read it all →

The indigenous Tillamook people have lived along the Oregon coast –including the Tillamook Bay– for about 12,000 years; from Tillamook Head in the North, to Cape Foulweather in the south, and extending inland to the summit of the Oregon Coast Range. They lived in permanent cedar-plank lodges, illuminated at night with torches or by burning fish heads or whale oil. Their diet included salmon, mussels, lampreys, berries, wild mustard, camas, grouse, beaver, deer, and elk.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Garibaldi, 1870 to 1950

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1870Post officeThe Garibaldi post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1937On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  5. 1941In the archiveGaribaldi, Oregon
  6. 1950CensusPopulation peaks at 1,249
By decade

Garibaldi, decade by decade

One decade in the archive so far: the 1940s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

1940s2 items
Garibaldi, Oregon1941Garibaldi, OregonGaribaldi, Oregon. House on Oregon coast1941Garibaldi, Oregon. House on Oregon coast
1950s–1990snothing yet
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Add from your album
Today4 recent
Garibaldi welcome sign2013Garibaldi welcome signGaribaldi2009GaribaldiORMap-doton-Garibaldi2004ORMap-doton-GaribaldiOregon2003Oregon
On the map

Garibaldi on the map, 1937 to 1985

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

Garibaldi on the 1937 USGS mapGaribaldi on the 1943 USGS mapGaribaldi on the 1955 USGS mapGaribaldi on the 1985 USGS map1937Nehalem 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 Garibaldi.

Every building

Garibaldi, building by building, 1929

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 sheet.

Garibaldi fire insurance map, 1929, sheet 11929Sheet 1 of 20
BrickWoodStone

Sanborn Map Company, via the Library of Congress. Editions published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.

Then & now

Stand where they stood

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.

Garibaldi, Oregon
Retake this viewGaribaldi, Oregon, 1941

Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Garibaldi’s page.

Retake this view · +15
On the National Register

1 historic place in Garibaldi

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
3
each building in a district counts
first listed
1993
US Coast Guard Station-Tillamook Bay
US Coast Guard Station-Tillamook Bay
Buildings

Architectural styles listings

Colonial Revival1
US Coast Guard Station-Tillamook BayColonial Revival

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Famous people

Famous people close to Garibaldi

Nobody well known was born in Garibaldi itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

See all →
Bridget MarquardtAmerican TV personality · b. 1973
Maurine NeubergerUS Senator from Oregon · b. 1907
K
Ken CarpenterAmerican football player · b. 1926
Betsy EbyAmerican artist · b. 1967
Brian BoquistRepublican politician from Oregon · b. 1958
D
Dorothy JohansenAmerican historian · b. 1904
Places that used to be

Places now gone

Garibaldi’s post office has been open since 1870.

Gone or out of use
MiamilocalePaquetlocale

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

Questions about Garibaldi’s history

What year was Garibaldi founded?

The Garibaldi post office opened in 1870, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records). Wikidata gives 1946.

What is on the National Register in Garibaldi?

One place: the US Coast Guard Station-Tillamook Bay (listed 1993).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

Town Square →
Start a conversation
Sources

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 (4), the Library of Congress (2), the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, 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.