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History · Clarks Hill

Clarks Hill’s post office opened in 1878

Most of Clarks Hill was built recently: 2% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1989. Below: maps from 1921 on and the census since 2000.

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How Clarks Hill began

When was Clarks Hill founded?

1878

The Clarks Hill post office opened in 1878, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Meriwether (1882), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

First census: 376 in 20002020 census: 289148 years
Founding year: the first Clarks Hill post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Clarks Hill’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 Clarks Hill are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.On the map since 19214 editions of the USGS map, 1921 to 1986. Watch Clarks Hill change.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Clarks Hill’s history is told.

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On the map

Clarks Hill on the map, 1921 to 1986

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

Clarks Hill on the 1921 USGS mapClarks Hill on the 1941 USGS mapClarks Hill on the 1964 USGS mapClarks Hill on the 1986 USGS map1921Clarks Hill 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 Clarks Hill.

The story

How Clarks Hill came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Clarks Hill.

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The community was named after an 18th-century local blacksmith.

The Hopewell Rosenwald School was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Clarks Hill, 1878 to 1943

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1878Post officeThe Clarks Hill post office opens
  3. 1882Post officeThe Meriwether post office opens
  4. 20th century
  5. 1921On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  6. 1943Post officeThe Meriwether post office closes
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Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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People over time

Clarks Hill, census by census

010020030040020002020Peak: 381

Between 289 and 381 people in every census since 2000.

3 censuses, 2000–2020.

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

Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

Clarks Hill’s post office has been open since 1878. Another post office, Meriwether, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Clarks Hill
1878–today
Meriwether
1882–1943
18701950today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Meriwether
Gone or out of use
Bethany Schoolschool
3cemeteries and burying grounds inside Clarks Hill
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US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Questions about Clarks Hill’s history

What year was Clarks Hill founded?

The Clarks Hill post office opened in 1878, 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 Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), 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.