Most of Plantersville was built recently: 0.8% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1995. Below: 6 old photos and papers and maps from 1962 on.
From Plantersville’s archive · credits on each photo
Quick answers
How Plantersville began
When was Plantersville founded?
1856
The Plantersville post office opened in 1856, the earliest record of the town by name.
2020 census: 464170 years
Founding year: the first Plantersville post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).
The story so far
Plantersville, in brief
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Plantersville yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Plantersville is a city in Grimes County, Texas, United States. It was incorporated as a city on May 15, 2017. It is located at the junction of Texas State Highway 105, Farm to Market Road 1774, and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway in the southeastern part of the county. It is adjacent to the city of Todd Mission. As of the 2020 census, its population was 464.
Its first post office opened in 1856.
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Timeline
Plantersville, 1856 to 1962
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
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.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Plantersville. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1962Plantersville 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 Plantersville.
Then & now
Stand where they stood
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Retake this viewHistoric American Buildings Survey, Harry L. Starnes, Photographer August 14, 1936 FRONT AND NORTH SIDE ELEVATION. - Ma…, 1936
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Plantersville’s page.
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 (6), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, 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.
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