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More historic than 4% of U.S. towns · #586 of 642 in Texas. What drives it
Most of Frisco was built recently: 0.1% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 2009. Below: 3 old photos and papers, maps from 1929 on, and the census since 1910.
The Frisco post office opened in 1902, the earliest record of the town by name. Wikidata gives 1904. Two smaller post offices, Rock Hill (1854) and Lebanon (1867), opened inside today’s city and later closed.
More historic than 4% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Frisco is more historic than 4% of U.S. towns, #586 of 642 in Texas. Its National Register listings hold the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls it down.
Among the 400 U.S. cities of 100,000 or more, Frisco ranks #381 on History.
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 Frisco’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.
Newer cities are common at Frisco’s size: in the typical U.S. city of 100,000 or more, 5% of homes predate 1940.
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 →
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Frisco’s history is told.
Frisco’s post office has been open since 1902. Two other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.
From Wikipedia’s history of Frisco.
When the Dallas area was being settled by American pioneers, many of the settlers traveled by wagon trains along the Shawnee Trail. This trail became the Preston Trail, and later Preston Road. With all this activity, the community of Lebanon was founded along this trail and was granted a U.S. post office in 1860.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
In the archiveHOUSE IN A PREDOMINANTLY MEXICAN-AMERICAN NEIGHBORHOOD TOWN OF FRISCO, JUST NORTH OF DALL…
In the archiveFrisco, Texas (ASTER)
Born hereNick Bolton is born here
Born hereAndy Woodward is born here2 decades in the archive, from the 1970s to the 1980s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Frisco. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Frisco.
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Frisco’s page.
Retake this view · +15Grew from 332 people in 1910 to 200,509 in 2020, more than tenfold.
12 censuses, 1910–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Frisco’s Wikipedia page.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Frisco post office opened in 1902, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records). Wikidata gives 1904.
Frisco is more historic than 4% of U.S. towns, #586 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.
0.1% of Frisco’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate), against a typical 1.6% for a Texas town; the median home was built in 2009.
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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.
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