Founding year: the first Bryant post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).
History grade
What drives Bryant’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Bryant is more historic than 18% of U.S. towns, #190 of 285 in Washington. Its age holds the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls it down.
C−
HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Bryant’s overall grade.
Few Washington towns list much on the Register (a typical Washington town has 0.1 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Bryant’s 0.0 sits below most of its state (27% of Washington 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 is a Census survey estimate (±3.3 points). 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 Bryant’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Bryant yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Bryant is a census-designated place (CDP) in Snohomish County, Washington, United States. As of the 2020 census, Bryant had a population of 2,128. A post office called Bryant was established in 1893, and remained in operation until 1954. The community most likely took its name from the Bryant Lumber and Shingle Company.
Its first post office opened in 1893. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 1,870 to 2,128 (+14%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
From the old history books
What they wrote about Bryant in 1913
Passages that mention Bryant, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Mr. Bryant has in his possession the stock of the gun that our common ancestor, David Bryant, carried in the Revolutionary War and Mrs. Joseph Allen Bryant has the bullet moulds used by David Bryant. (37.)
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
Usually genealogies follow only the line bearing the name of the male ancestor. In the Bryant Genealogy a record has been given, as far as obtainable, of all of the descendants of David Bryant and Catherine Woolley Bryant of whatever name, thus including the female lines of descent.
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Timeline
Bryant, 1893 to 1954
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Questions about Bryant’s history
What year was Bryant founded?
The Bryant post office opened in 1893, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
How does Bryant rank for history?
Bryant is more historic than 18% of U.S. towns, #190 of 285 in Washington. 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 Bryant?
3% of Bryant’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±3.3 points), against a typical 4.3% for a Washington town; the median home was built in 1996.
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 U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
