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History · Euless

Euless’ post office opened in 1886

More historic than 15% of U.S. towns · #396 of 642 in Texas. What drives it

Most of Euless was built recently: 0.4% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1986. Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1931 on, and the census since 1960.

1886first post office
0on the National Register
0.4%homes built before 1940
1old photo or paper
9famous people
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Photo: Billy Hathorn · CC BY-SA 3.0
Quick answers

How Euless began

When was Euless founded?

1886

The Euless post office opened in 1886, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Bear Creek (1883), opened inside today’s city and later closed.

First census: 4,263 in 19602020 census: 61,032140 years

How historic is Euless?

D

More historic than 15% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.

What drives the grade ↓
Founding year: the first Euless post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓
History grade

What drives Euless’ History grade

On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Euless is more historic than 15% of U.S. towns, #396 of 642 in Texas. Its age holds the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls it down.

D
HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Euless’ overall grade.
Founding era1886, from the first post office: founded 1850–1899, an older era than 37% of U.S. townsC+Homes built before 19400.4% of homes (±0.4) · typical TX town 1.6% · U.S. 8.4%DNational 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 15%
NewerOlder
Texas towns of 2,500+ (642)Ahead of 38%

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 Euless’ 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 D to C. The pre-1940 share (±0.4 points) is firm at this size. 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 Euless’ past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenOnly 1 old photo is in the public archives. The rest are in attics and albums.Famous sons and daughtersSarah Shahi, Lin Elliott and 7 more were born here.
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Start Euless’s collection

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

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
1 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Retake an old viewCity Limit by Raymond Lafourchette: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
Famous people

9 famous people were born in Euless

Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.

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Sarah ShahiAmerican actress and model · b. 1980
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Lin ElliottAmerican football player · b. 1968
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David AllenAll-American college football player, professio… · b. 1978
J
Jimmy CrooksAmerican professional baseball player · b. 2001
R
Robert GriffinAmerican football player · b. 1989
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Sam TeviAmerican football offensive tackle · b. 1994
The story

How Euless came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Euless.

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Euless is named after Elisha Adam Euless, a native of Tennessee who moved to Texas in 1867 and later bought 170 acres (0.69 km2) of land on the current intersection of North Main St. and West Euless Boulevard. Euless started a cotton gin and a community center on his property and quickly became a prominent figure among other settlers. He was eventually elected county sheriff, both in 1892 and in 1894, after which Euless retired for health reasons. They developed around the land Euless owned, and the locals decided to name the city in honor of him.

ChaptersMerced vs Kasson

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Euless, 1883 to 2001

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1883Post officeThe Bear Creek post office opens
  3. 1886Post officeThe Euless post office opens
  4. 20th century
  5. 1911Post officeThe Bear Creek post office closes
  6. 1931On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  7. 1968Born hereLin Elliott is born here
  8. 1978Born hereDavid Allen is born here
  9. 1980Born hereSarah Shahi is born here
  10. 1999In the archiveCity Limit by Raymond Lafourchette
  11. 21st century
  12. 2001Born hereJimmy Crooks is born here
By decade

Euless, decade by decade

One decade in the archive so far: the 1990s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

1990s1 item
City Limit by Raymond Lafourchette1999City Limit by Raymond Lafourchette
Today5 recent
South Euless Elementary School with marker2018South Euless Elementary School with markerArgiope Aurantia2015Argiope AurantiaRepair2010RepairA Miracle rainbow2010A Miracle rainbowTexas HEBISD Trinity HS front2007Texas HEBISD Trinity HS front
On the map

Euless on the map, 1931 to 1995

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

Euless on the 1931 USGS mapEuless on the 1959 USGS mapEuless on the 1968 USGS mapEuless on the 1973 USGS mapEuless on the 1981 USGS mapEuless on the 1995 USGS map1931Grapevine 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 Euless.

People over time

Euless, census by census

05,00010,00015,00020,00025,00030,00035,00040,00045,00050,00055,00060,00065,000196019802000202061,032

Grew from 4,263 people in 1960 to 61,032 in 2020, more than tenfold.

7 censuses, 1960–2020.

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

Places that used to be

Lost post offices and burying grounds

Euless’s post office has been open since 1886. Another post office, Bear Creek, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Bear Creek
1883–1911
Euless
1886–today
18801950today
1cemetery inside Euless
Bear Creek

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

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Fort Worth103 historic placesA−Bedford1 historic placeCHurstIts storyDColleyvilleIts storyD−Grapevine4 historic placesB+

Questions about Euless’ history

What year was Euless founded?

The Euless post office opened in 1886, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

How does Euless rank for history?

Euless is more historic than 15% of U.S. towns, #396 of 642 in Texas. 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 Euless?

0.4% of Euless’ homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate), against a typical 1.6% for a Texas town; the median home was built in 1986.

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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 (6), 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.