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History · Lefors

Lefors’ post office opened in 1892, and 17% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1967 on and the census since 1930.

1892first post office
0on the National Register
17%homes built before 1940
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How Lefors began

When was Lefors founded?

1892

The Lefors post office opened in 1892, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 952 in 19302020 census: 420134 years
Founding year: the first Lefors post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Lefors’ 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 Lefors are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Lefors’ homes were built before 1964.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Lefors’s history is told.

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The story

How Lefors came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Lefors.

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The area around modern Lefors was near the heart of Comancheria and a common village site for the nomadic tribes of Comanche.

Randolph Marcy's 1852 expedition passed this way. The Battle of the North Fork of the Red River, between the U.S. Army under the command of Ranald Slidell Mackenzie and the Comanche, was fought near here on September 29, 1872. Cheyenne chief Grey Beard's band was attacked near here in 1874 by the U.S. Army.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

By decade

Lefors, decade by decade

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Dirt Roads in2010Dirt Roads inAbandoned Gas Station2010Abandoned Gas Station
On the map

Lefors on the map, 1967 to 1983

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

Lefors on the 1967 USGS mapLefors on the 1983 USGS map1967Lefors 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 Lefors.

People over time

Lefors, census by census

02004006008001,00019401960198020002020Peak: 952

Between 420 and 952 people in every census since 1930.

10 censuses, 1930–2020.

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

Famous people

Famous people close to Lefors

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

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Alan BeanAmerican astronaut and painter · b. 1932
Zach ThomasAmerican football player · b. 1973
Kenneth MinihanUnited States general · b. 1943
Les BrownleeUnited States Army personnel · b. 1939
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Gene CockrellAmerican football player and rodeo cowboy · b. 1934
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Don RivesAmerican football player · b. 1951

Questions about Lefors’ history

What year was Lefors founded?

The Lefors post office opened in 1892, 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 Wikimedia Commons (2), 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.