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Hermleigh post officePhoto: Lothar the Terrible · Public domain
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History · Hermleigh

Hermleigh’s post office opened in 1907, and 19% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1952 on, and the census since 2000.

1907first post office
0on the National Register
19%homes built before 1940
1old photo or paper
1famous people
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Photo: Lothar the Terrible · Public domain
Quick answers

How Hermleigh began

When was Hermleigh founded?

1907

The Hermleigh post office opened in 1907, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Foch (1919), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

First census: 393 in 20002020 census: 383119 years
Founding year: the first Hermleigh post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Hermleigh’s 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.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Hermleigh’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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1 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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The story

How Hermleigh came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Hermleigh.

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Hermleigh's history begins in 1907 when a townsite was surveyed on land donated by two men named R. C. Herm and Harry W. Harlin near the small community of Wheat. Citizens chose to name their new community "Hermlin" (an amalgam of the surnames of the two landowners) but this name was rejected by postal officials as being too close to the nearby town of Hamlin, potentially causing confusion between the two communities. The compromise of "Hermleigh" was settled upon, and the post office opened shortly thereafter. The Roscoe, Snyder and Pacific Railway was built through the new community, and residents of Wheat began to relocate to Hermleigh.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Hermleigh, 1907 to 1952

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1907Post officeThe Hermleigh post office opens
  3. 1919Post officeThe Foch post office opens
  4. 1920Post officeThe Foch post office closes
  5. 1933Born hereGrant Teaff is born here
  6. 1944In the archive12Fi663 - LIBERATION DE BREST
  7. 1952On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Hermleigh, decade by decade

One decade in the archive so far: the 1940s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

1940s1 item
12Fi663 - LIBERATION DE BREST194412Fi663 - LIBERATION DE BREST
1950s–1990snothing yet
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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Today1 recent
Hermleigh post office2009Hermleigh post office
On the map

Hermleigh on the map, 1952 to 1985

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

Hermleigh on the 1952 USGS mapHermleigh on the 1979 USGS mapHermleigh on the 1985 USGS map1952Hermleigh 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 Hermleigh.

Then & now

Stand where they stood

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12Fi663 - LIBERATION DE BREST
Retake this view12Fi663 - LIBERATION DE BREST, 1944

Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Hermleigh’s page.

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People over time

Hermleigh, census by census

010020030040020002020Peak: 393

Between 345 and 393 people in every census since 2000.

3 censuses, 2000–2020.

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

Places that used to be

Lost post offices and burying grounds

Hermleigh’s post office has been open since 1907. Another post office, Foch, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Hermleigh
1907–today
Foch
1919–1920
19001960today
1cemetery inside Hermleigh
Hermleigh

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

Questions about Hermleigh’s history

What year was Hermleigh founded?

The Hermleigh post office opened in 1907, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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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). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikimedia Commons (2), 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.