The story
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From Wikipedia’s history of Clint.
According to Martin Donell Kohout of The Handbook of Texas Online:
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
B−History
History · Clint
Clint’s post office opened in 1886, and 23% of its homes were built before 1940
More historic than 45% of U.S. towns. What drives it
Below: maps from 1941 on and the census since 1980.
1886first post office
0on the National Register
23%homes built before 1940
1famous people
Quick answers
How Clint began
When was Clint founded?
1886
The Clint post office opened in 1886, the earliest record of the town by name.
First census: 1,314 in 19802020 census: 923140 years
How historic is Clint?
B−
What drives the grade ↓More historic than 45% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
Founding year: the first Clint post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓
History grade
What drives Clint’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Clint is more historic than 45% of U.S. towns. Its share of homes from before 1940 holds the grade up; its National Register listings pull it down.
B−
HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Clint’s overall grade.
Founding era1886, from the first post office: founded 1850–1899, an older era than 37% of U.S. townsC+Homes built before 194023.2% of homes (±10.3) · typical TX town 1.6% · U.S. 8.4%A−National RegisterNo listings counted · typical TX town 0.0 per 10,000 · U.S. 2.4C
All U.S. towns we grade (21,289)Ahead of 45%
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Few Texas towns list much on the Register (a typical Texas town has 0.0 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Clint’s 0.0 sits below most of its state (34% of Texas towns have fewer) while its 0 listings outnumber those of 23% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from C to B. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±10.3 points). The founding year is the first post office, not a stated founding date.
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 Clint’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
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Start Clint’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Clint’s history is told.
Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.Timeline
Clint, 1886 to 1983
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
- 19th century
- 1886Post officeThe Clint post office opens
- 20th century
- 1941
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey - 1983Born hereMary González is born here
By decade
Clint, decade by decade
2019On the map
Clint on the map, 1941 to 1995
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Clint. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1941Clint sheet · 1:62,500U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Clint.
People over time
Clint, census by census
Between 923 and 1,314 people in every census since 1980.
5 censuses, 1980–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Clint’s Wikipedia page.
Stories next door
History across the town line
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Questions about Clint’s history
What year was Clint founded?
The Clint post office opened in 1886, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
How does Clint rank for history?
Clint is more historic than 45% 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.
How old are the homes in Clint?
23% of Clint’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±10.3 points), against a typical 1.6% for a Texas town; the median home was built in 1981.
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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).
From Wikimedia Commons (1), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, 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.