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History · Starr

Starr’s post office opened in 1892, and 17% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: 2 old photos and papers, maps from 1964 on, and the census since 1910.

1892first post office
0on the National Register
17%homes built before 1940
2old photos & papers
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From Starr’s archive · credits on each photo
Quick answers

How Starr began

When was Starr founded?

1892

The Starr post office opened in 1892, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Twiggs (1887), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

First census: 273 in 19102020 census: 165134 years
Founding year: the first Starr post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Starr’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 361 in 1930; 165 people lived here in 2020.
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Start Starr’s collection

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

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Date a photo2 archive items have no date. Guess the decade.+2Retake an old viewSmith-McGee Bridge, Georgia Route 181, …: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
People over time

Starr, census by census

0100200300400192019401960198020002020Peak: 361

Peaked at 361 in 1930; 165 people lived here in 2020.

12 censuses, 1910–2020.

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

The story so far

Starr, in brief

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

Starr is a town in Anderson County, South Carolina. The population was 165 at the 2020 census.

Its first post office opened in 1892. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 173 to 165 (-5%).

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

Timeline

Starr, 1887 to 1964

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1887Post officeThe Twiggs post office opens
  3. 1892Post officeThe Twiggs post office closes
  4. 1892Post officeThe Starr post office opens
  5. 20th century
  6. 1930CensusPopulation peaks at 361
  7. 1964On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Starr, decade by decade

Date unknown2 to date
Smith-McGee Bridge, Georgia Route 181, Hartwell, Hart County, GADate?Smith-McGee Bridge, Georgia Route 181, Hartwell, Hart…Hart County Bridge, State Route 181, spanning Savannah River, Hartwell, Hart County, GADate?Hart County Bridge, State Route 181, spanning Savanna…
On the map

Starr on the map, 1964 to 1979

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

Starr on the 1964 USGS mapStarr on the 1979 USGS map1964Anderson South 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 Starr.

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.

Smith-McGee Bridge, Georgia Route 181, Hartwell, Hart County, GA
Retake this viewSmith-McGee Bridge, Georgia Route 181, Hartwell, Hart County, GA

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

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Places that used to be

Lost post offices

Starr’s post office has been open since 1892. Another post office, Twiggs, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Twiggs
1887–1892
Starr
1892–today
18801950today

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

Questions about Starr’s history

What year was Starr founded?

The Starr post office opened in 1892, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

Memory lane

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

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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 (2), 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.