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History · Pine Valley

Pine Valley’s post office opened in 1859, and 1 of its places is on the National Register

Most of Pine Valley was built recently: 8% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1992. Its Register listing is the Pine Valley Chapel and Tithing Office. Below: 2 old photos and papers and maps from 1972 on.

1859first post office
1on the National Register
8%homes built before 1940
2old photos & papers
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Quick answers

How Pine Valley began

When was Pine Valley founded?

1859

The Pine Valley post office opened in 1859, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 249167 years
Founding year: the first Pine Valley post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Pine Valley’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenOnly 2 old photos are in the public archives. The rest are in attics and albums.
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Start Pine Valley’s collection

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

Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Date a photo2 archive items have no date. Guess the decade.+2Retake an old viewPine Valley Ward Chapel, Main & Grass V…: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
The story so far

Pine Valley, in brief

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

Pine Valley is a census-designated place in north-central Washington County, Utah, United States that lies approximately 45 minutes north of the county seat, St. George. It is located at the head of the Santa Clara River in the Pine Valley Mountains, and was settled in 1859. The population was 249 at the 2020 census. Significant landmarks include the Pine Valley Ward Chapel of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints designed by shipbuilder Ebenezer Bryce in 1868 using the scheme of an upside-down boat. Pine Valley Chapel is the oldest Mormon chapel in continuous use.

Its first post office opened in 1859. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 186 to 249 (+34%).

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

Timeline

Pine Valley, 1859 to 1972

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1859Post officeThe Pine Valley post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1948Post officeThe Pine Valley post office closes
  5. 1972On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Pine Valley, decade by decade

Date unknown2 to date
Pine Valley Ward Chapel, Main & Grass Valley StreetsDate?Pine Valley Ward Chapel, Main & Grass Valley StreetsPine Valley Tithing Office, Main StreetDate?Pine Valley Tithing Office, Main Street
On the map

Pine Valley on the map, 1972 to 2002

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

Pine Valley on the 1972 USGS mapPine Valley on the 2002 USGS map1972Central East 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 Pine Valley.

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.

Pine Valley Ward Chapel, Main & Grass Valley Streets
Retake this viewPine Valley Ward Chapel, Main & Grass Valley Streets

Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Pine Valley’s page.

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On the National Register

1 historic place in Pine Valley

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

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
2
each building in a district counts
first listed
1971
Pine Valley Chapel and Tithing Office
Pine Valley Chapel and Tithing Office
Buildings
Pine Valley Chapel and Tithing OfficeBuilding

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

Places that used to be

Lost post offices, places now gone and burying grounds

Pine Valley had its own post office from 1859 to 1948.

Pine Valley
1859–1948
18501940today
Gone or out of use
Pine Valley Post Officepost office
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Pine Valley
Old Pine ValleyPine Valley

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

Questions about Pine Valley’s history

What year was Pine Valley founded?

The Pine Valley post office opened in 1859, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Pine Valley?

One place: the Pine Valley Chapel and Tithing Office (listed 1971).

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). How TownRatings grades history →

From the Library of Congress (2), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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.