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History · Elsinore

Elsinore dates to 1874, and 36% of its homes were built before 1940

Its Register listings are the Elsinore White Rock Schoolhouse and the Elsinore Sugar Factory. Below: maps from 1940 on and the census since 1880.

1874founded
2on the National Register
36%homes built before 1940
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How Elsinore began

When was Elsinore founded?

1874

Elsinore dates its founding to 1874 (Wikidata and Wikipedia’s history agree). The census first counted it in 1880.

First census: 223 in 18802020 census: 802152 years
Founding year: Wikidata; Wikipedia’s history section gives the same year. First post office: 1877.The full story ↓

What stands out about Elsinore’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 Elsinore are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Shrank, then grewLost half of its people between 1920 and 1970, then more than doubled.Old housesHalf of Elsinore’s homes were built before 1959.
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Start Elsinore’s collection

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

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People over time

Elsinore, census by census

020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020843 in 1920Low: 357

Lost half of its people between 1920 and 1970, then more than doubled.

15 censuses, 1880–2020.

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

The story

How Elsinore came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Elsinore.

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The community was first settled in the spring of 1874 by James C. Jensen, Jens Iver Jensen, and others. The area was settled by Danish converts to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and named after Kronborg Castle, known as Elsinore in Hamlet. Helsingør, the city where Kronborg Castle is located, is classically known as Elsinore as well.

The first passenger train arrived on July 21, 1896, from the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad.

Elsinore was home to a Utah-Idaho Sugar Company factory for processing sugar beets into sugar from 1911 to 1929, but was closed due to a sugar beet blight.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Elsinore, 1874 to 2010

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1874
    FoundingElsinore is established
  3. 1877Post officeThe Elsinore post office opens
  4. 1896BuiltElsinore White Rock Schoolhouse is built
  5. 20th century
  6. 1910BuiltElsinore Sugar Factory is built
  7. 1940On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  8. 21st century
  9. 2010CensusPopulation peaks at 847
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No old photos in the archives yet

Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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On the map

Elsinore on the map, 1940 to 2001

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

Elsinore on the 1940 USGS mapElsinore on the 1980 USGS mapElsinore on the 2001 USGS map1940Monroe 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 Elsinore.

On the National Register

2 historic places in Elsinore

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

places listed
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historic buildings protected
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first listed
1978
Elsinore White Rock Schoolhouse
Elsinore White Rock Schoolhouse, built 1896Elsinore Sugar Factory, built 1910
Buildings

Architectural styles listings

Scandinavian1
Elsinore White Rock SchoolhouseScandinavian · Built 1896
Elsinore Sugar FactoryBuilt 1910

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Famous people

Famous people close to Elsinore

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

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Jake GarnAmerican politician and general · b. 1932
Marie WindsorAmerican actress · b. 1919
Art AcordAmerican silent film actor, stuntman, ranch hand · b. 1890
Walter Frederick MorrisonInventor of the Frisbee · b. 1920
Mary ThurmanAmerican actress · b. 1895
Culbert OlsonAmerican politician · b. 1876
Places that used to be

Old corners and burying grounds

Elsinore’s post office has been open since 1877.

Hamlets and corners on the map
Nibley
1cemetery inside Elsinore
Elsinore

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

Questions about Elsinore’s history

What year was Elsinore founded?

In 1874, according to Wikidata and Wikipedia’s history of the town. Elsinore’s post office opened in 1877, and the census of 1880 counted 223 people here.

What is on the National Register in Elsinore?

Two places: the Elsinore White Rock Schoolhouse (listed 1978) and the Elsinore Sugar Factory (1980).

Memory lane

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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 Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (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.