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History · Guerra

Guerra’s post office opened in 1906

Below: maps from 1938 on and the census since 2000.

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How Guerra began

When was Guerra founded?

1906

The Guerra post office opened in 1906, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 8 in 20002020 census: 3120 years
Founding year: the first Guerra post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Guerra’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 Guerra are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The story so far

Guerra, in brief

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

Guerra is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Jim Hogg County, Texas, United States. As of the 2020 census, Guerra had a population of 3.

Its first post office opened in 1906. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 6 to 3 (-50%).

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

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On the map

Guerra on the map, 1938 to 1972

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

Guerra on the 1938 USGS mapGuerra on the 1972 USGS map1938Cuevitas 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 Guerra.

People over time

Guerra, census by census

020002020Peak: 8

Between 3 and 8 people in every census since 2000.

3 censuses, 2000–2020.

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

Questions about Guerra’s history

What year was Guerra founded?

The Guerra post office opened in 1906, 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 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.