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History · Encino

Encino’s post office opened in 1914, and 14% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1963 on and the census since 2000.

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0on the National Register
14%homes built before 1940
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How Encino began

When was Encino founded?

1914

The Encino post office opened in 1914, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 177 in 20002020 census: 109112 years
Founding year: the first Encino post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Encino’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 Encino are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Encino’s history is told.

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The story

How Encino came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Encino.

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Encino is located in what once was a Mexican land grant dating back to 1832 called “La Encantada y Encina del Pozo”. The name of the grant, translating in english to “Enchanted Place and Live Oak in a Hole”, was inspired by an oak tree of notable size on the land which cattle would gather under for shade which a depression in the soil. The current community was permanently settled in 1904 when the Texas and New Orleans Railroad extended a line through Encino, and the local post office was built in 1914.

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By decade

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On the map

Encino on the map, 1963 to 1992

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

Encino on the 1963 USGS mapEncino on the 1982 USGS mapEncino on the 1992 USGS map1963Encino 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 Encino.

People over time

Encino, census by census

010020002020Peak: 177

Between 109 and 177 people in every census since 2000.

3 censuses, 2000–2020.

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

Famous people

Famous people close to Encino

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

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John MooringAmerican football tackle and center · b. 1947
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Teresa Lozano LongEducator and philanthropist, supporting arts an… · b. 1928

Questions about Encino’s history

What year was Encino founded?

The Encino post office opened in 1914, 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.