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History · New Summerfield

New Summerfield’s post office opened in 1938

Most of New Summerfield was built recently: 7% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1985.

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Quick answers

How New Summerfield began

When was New Summerfield founded?

1938

The New Summerfield post office opened in 1938, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Summerfield (1897), opened inside today’s city and later closed.

2020 census: 84388 years
Founding year: the first New Summerfield post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

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

New Summerfield, in brief

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

New Summerfield is a city in Cherokee County, Texas, United States. The population was 843 at the 2020 U.S. census.

Its first post office opened in 1938. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 1,111 to 843 (-24%).

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

Timeline

New Summerfield, 1878 to 1938

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1878Born hereWalt Dickson is born here
  3. 1897Post officeThe Summerfield post office opens
  4. 20th century
  5. 1905Post officeThe Summerfield post office closes
  6. 1938Post officeThe New Summerfield post office opens
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New Summerfield, decade by decade

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Places that used to be

Lost post offices and burying grounds

New Summerfield’s post office has been open since 1938. Another post office, Summerfield, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Summerfield
1897–1905
New Summerfield
1938–today
18901960today
1cemetery inside New Summerfield
Union Chapel

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

Questions about New Summerfield’s history

What year was New Summerfield founded?

The New Summerfield post office opened in 1938, 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 (1), Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, 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.