Guest, Sign inJoin

Post to Wimer

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
Wimer Covered BridgePhoto: Akampfer · CC BY-SA 3.0
–Not graded
History · Wimer

Wimer’s post office opened in 1887, and 13% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1954 on.

1887first post office
0on the National Register
13%homes built before 1940
Add an old photoShare a memory
Photo: Akampfer · CC BY-SA 3.0
Quick answers

How Wimer began

When was Wimer founded?

1887

The Wimer post office opened in 1887, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 690139 years
Founding year: the first Wimer post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Wimer’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 Wimer are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
★ What stands out · Help out

Start Wimer’s collection

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

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
The story so far

Wimer, in brief

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

Wimer is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Jackson County, Oregon, United States. As of the 2020 census, Wimer had a population of 690. Wimer lies along Evans Creek north of the city of Rogue River. The community was named for a relative of William Wimer, who edited a newspaper in Grants Pass in 1886–87. Grants Pass is about 17 miles (27 km) southwest of Wimer. William Wimer was also said to have helped establish a post office in Wimer, which remained open until 1909. Simon E. Simpkins was the first postmaster. Wimer Bridge is a covered bridge that crosses Evans Creek in Wimer. It replaced a 1927 version of the bridge that collapsed into the creek in 2003. In …

Its first post office opened in 1887. Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 678 in 2010, 690 in 2020.

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

Timeline

Wimer, 1887 to 1954

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1887Post officeThe Wimer post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1909Post officeThe Wimer post office closes
  5. 1954On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

No old photos in the archives yet

Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

Be the first to add onePhotograph a print flat, in daylight, no flash.
Add from your album
On the map

Wimer on the map, 1954 to 1996

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

Wimer on the 1954 USGS mapWimer on the 1983 USGS mapWimer on the 1996 USGS map1954Wimer 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 Wimer.

Famous people

Famous people close to Wimer

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

See all →
Ty BurrellAmerican actor and comedian · b. 1967
Jeff MerkleyAmerican politician · b. 1956
David AndersActor · b. 1981
J
Jason James RichterAmerican actor · b. 1980
Kyle SinglerAmerican basketball player · b. 1988
Pinto ColvigAmerican voice actor · b. 1892
Places that used to be

Lost post offices and places now gone

Wimer had its own post office from 1887 to 1909.

Wimer
1887–1909
18801950today
Gone or out of use
Wimer Post Officepost office

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

Questions about Wimer’s history

What year was Wimer founded?

The Wimer post office opened in 1887, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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 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.