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History · Lacomb

Lacomb’s post office opened in 1889

Most of Lacomb was built recently: 1% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1996. Below: 1 old photo or paper and maps from 1984 on.

1889first post office
0on the National Register
1%homes built before 1940
1old photo or paper
1famous people
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Quick answers

How Lacomb began, and where its name came from

When was Lacomb founded?

1889

The Lacomb post office opened in 1889, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 575137 years

How did Lacomb get its name?

Lacomb was named in December 1889 by W.J. Turnidge, a son of a pioneer.

Founding year: the first Lacomb post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Name: Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

What stands out about Lacomb’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 1 old photo is in the public archives. The rest are in attics and albums.
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Start Lacomb’s collection

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

Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Date a photo1 archive item has no date. Guess the decade.+2Retake an old viewLarwood Bridge, Spanning Crabtree Creek…: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
The story so far

Lacomb, in brief

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

Lacomb is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Linn County, Oregon, United States, located about 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Lebanon. It was named in December 1889 by W.J. Turnidge, a son of a pioneer. As of the 2020 census, Lacomb had a population of 575.

Its first post office opened in 1889. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 546 to 575 (+5%).

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

Timeline

Lacomb, 1889 to 1984

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1889Post officeThe Lacomb post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1960Born hereSherrie Sprenger is born here
  5. 1966Post officeThe Lacomb post office closes
  6. 1984On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Lacomb, decade by decade

Date unknown1 to date
Larwood Bridge, Spanning Crabtree Creek, Fish Hatchery Road (CR 648)Date?Larwood Bridge, Spanning Crabtree Creek, Fish Hatcher…
On the map

Lacomb on the map in 1984

The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Lacomb.

Lacomb on the 1984 USGS map1984Lacomb 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 Lacomb.

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.

Larwood Bridge, Spanning Crabtree Creek, Fish Hatchery Road (CR 648)
Retake this viewLarwood Bridge, Spanning Crabtree Creek, Fish Hatchery Road (CR 648)

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

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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, places now gone and burying grounds

Lacomb had its own post office from 1889 to 1966.

Lacomb
1889–1966
18801950today
Gone or out of use
Lacomb Post Officepost office
1cemetery inside Lacomb
Lacomb

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

Questions about Lacomb’s history

What year was Lacomb founded?

The Lacomb post office opened in 1889, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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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 the Library of Congress (1), Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, 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.