Its Register listings are the A. H. and Company Black Building and the Reorganized Church of Latter Day Saints. Below: 1 old photo or paper from 1909 on.
Founding year: the first Myrtle Point post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Wikidata: 1887.
History grade
What drives Myrtle Point’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Myrtle Point is more historic than 69% of U.S. towns. Its share of homes from before 1940 holds the grade up; its age pulls it down.
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HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Myrtle Point’s overall grade.
Oregon towns list more on the Register than most of the country (a typical Oregon town has 2.9 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Myrtle Point’s 7.5 sits near the middle of its state (63% of Oregon towns have fewer) while its 2 listings outnumber those of 60% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from C+ to A−. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±9.4 points). The founding year is the first post office, not a stated founding date; Wikidata’s 1887 falls in the same era, so the grade doesn’t depend on which one is used.
Founding year: the first post office (other dates in Quick answers). Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →
What stands out about Myrtle Point’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Myrtle Point yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Myrtle Point is a city in Coos County, Oregon, United States, established in 1887. The population was 2,475 at the 2020 census. Located in the Coquille River Valley, Myrtle Point is part of the Coos Bay/North Bend/Charleston Metropolitan Statistical Area, which consists of all of Coos County.
Its first post office opened in 1876. Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 2,514 in 2010, 2,475 in 2020.
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Timeline
Myrtle Point, 1876 to 1909
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
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.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Places that used to be
Places now gone and burying grounds
Myrtle Point’s post office has been open since 1876.
Gone or out of use
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1cemetery inside Myrtle Point
Old Myrtle Point
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Questions about Myrtle Point’s history
What year was Myrtle Point founded?
The Myrtle Point post office opened in 1876, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records). Wikidata gives 1887.
How does Myrtle Point rank for history?
Myrtle Point is more historic than 69% of U.S. towns. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
What is on the National Register in Myrtle Point?
Two places: the A. H. and Company Black Building (listed 1990) and the Reorganized Church of Latter Day Saints (1979).
How old are the homes in Myrtle Point?
30% of Myrtle Point’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±9.4 points), against a typical 5.3% for an Oregon town; the median home was built in 1958.
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).
From Wikimedia Commons (5), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (2), 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.
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