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Manor’s post office opened in 1872

More historic than 15% of U.S. towns · #396 of 642 in Texas. What drives it

Most of Manor was built recently: 0.4% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 2015. Below: maps from 1900 on and the census since 1880.

1872first post office
0on the National Register
0.4%homes built before 1940
2famous people
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Photo: Larry D. Moore · CC BY 4.0
Quick answers

How Manor began

When was Manor founded?

1872

The Manor post office opened in 1872, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Gregg (1871), opened inside today’s city and later closed.

First census: 120 in 18802020 census: 13,652154 years

How historic is Manor?

D

More historic than 15% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.

What drives the grade ↓
Founding year: the first Manor post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓
History grade

What drives Manor’s History grade

On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Manor is more historic than 15% of U.S. towns, #396 of 642 in Texas. Its age holds the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls it down.

D
HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Manor’s overall grade.
Founding era1872, from the first post office: founded 1850–1899, an older era than 37% of U.S. townsC+Homes built before 19400.4% of homes (±0.6) · typical TX town 1.6% · U.S. 8.4%DNational RegisterNo listings counted · typical TX town 0.0 per 10,000 · U.S. 2.4C
All U.S. towns we grade (21,289)Ahead of 15%
NewerOlder
Texas towns of 2,500+ (642)Ahead of 38%

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 Manor’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.

How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from D to C. The pre-1940 share (±0.6 points) is firm at this size. The founding year is the first post office, not a stated founding date.

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 →

What stands out about Manor’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 Manor are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Mapped building by building4 fire insurance maps, 1900 to 1916, drew every building in Manor.
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Start Manor’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Manor’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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Every building

Manor, building by building, 1900–1916

Fire insurance maps drew every building, what it was made of and what it was used for, so insurers could price the risk of fire. Pick a year, then a sheet.

Manor fire insurance map, 1900, sheet 11900Sheet 1 of 1
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Sanborn Map Company, via the Library of Congress. Editions published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.

The story

How Manor came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Manor.

Read it all →

Manor was named for James B. Manor, who settled on Gilleland Creek west of present-day downtown Manor.

A school for boys began operation northwest of the present Manor High School complex in 1854 and was followed in 1858 by a school for girls near the present Manor Elementary School. A post office was reestablished in the Manor home in 1859 under the name of Grassdale with James Manor serving as Post Master. A mercantile store was built in 1868 the present cemetery and was followed by a second store in 1869.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Manor, 1871 to 1999

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1871Post officeThe Gregg post office opens
  3. 1872Post officeThe Manor post office opens
  4. 20th century
  5. 1902Post officeThe Gregg post office closes
  6. 1917Born hereErnie Pannell is born here
  7. 1955On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  8. 1999Born hereOchaun Mathis is born here
By decade

Manor, decade by decade

Today6 recent
Manor Location2015Manor LocationBookUntitled photo2013Untitled photoOld house in2008Old house inEast Metropolitan Park DGC2008East Metropolitan Park DGCManorTXSign2005ManorTXSignTXMap-doton-Manor2004TXMap-doton-Manor
On the map

Manor on the map, 1955 to 1988

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

Manor on the 1955 USGS mapManor on the 1968 USGS mapManor on the 1973 USGS mapManor on the 1988 USGS map1955Austin 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 Manor.

People over time

Manor, census by census

02,0004,0006,0008,00010,00012,00014,0001880190019201940196019802000202013,652

Grew from 120 people in 1880 to 13,652 in 2020, more than tenfold.

13 censuses, 1880–2020.

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

Famous people

2 famous people were born in Manor

Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.

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Ochaun MathisAmerican football player · b. 1999
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Ernie PannellAmerican football player · b. 1917
Places that used to be

Lost post offices

Manor’s post office has been open since 1872. Another post office, Gregg, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Gregg
1871–1902
Manor
1872–today
18701950today

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

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Austin205 historic placesB+

Questions about Manor’s history

What year was Manor founded?

The Manor post office opened in 1872, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

How does Manor rank for history?

Manor is more historic than 15% of U.S. towns, #396 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.

How old are the homes in Manor?

0.4% of Manor’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate), against a typical 1.6% for a Texas town; the median home was built in 2015.

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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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).

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), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and Sanborn fire insurance maps (Library of Congress). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.