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History · Lolita

Lolita’s post office opened in 1910

Below: maps from 1952 on and the census since 2000.

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How Lolita began

When was Lolita founded?

1910

The Lolita post office opened in 1910, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 548 in 20002020 census: 519116 years
Founding year: the first Lolita post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Lolita’s past

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The story

How Lolita came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Lolita.

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The area around Lolita was first settled in the 1840s by Isaac N. Mitchell, who ran a plantation there. Lolita was established in 1909 and named for Lolita Reese, the granddaughter of a veteran of the Texas Revolution. The following year, a post office opened in Lolita, and the St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway built a switch there. After World War II, five businesses operated in Lolita, and by 1969 the community had seven businesses.

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On the map

Lolita on the map, 1952 to 1995

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

Lolita on the 1952 USGS mapLolita on the 1973 USGS mapLolita on the 1995 USGS map1952Lolita 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 Lolita.

People over time

Lolita, census by census

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Between 519 and 555 people in every census since 2000.

3 censuses, 2000–2020.

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

Famous people

Famous people close to Lolita

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

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Gale StormAmerican actress, singer · b. 1922
Matt ProkopAmerican actor · b. 1990
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Steven SaylorAmerican author of historical novels · b. 1956
Michael BatesAmerican athlete · b. 1969
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Daniel E. FloresCatholic bishop · b. 1961
Hope Dworaczyk SmithAmerican entrepreneur, model and tv personality · b. 1984

Questions about Lolita’s history

What year was Lolita founded?

The Lolita post office opened in 1910, 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 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.