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History · Harrah

Harrah’s post office opened in 1915, and 12% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1958 on and the census since 1950.

1915first post office
0on the National Register
12%homes built before 1940
1famous people
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How Harrah began

When was Harrah founded?

1915

The Harrah post office opened in 1915, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 297 in 19502020 census: 585111 years
Founding year: the first Harrah post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Harrah’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 Harrah are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Harrah’s history is told.

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The story

How Harrah came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Harrah.

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Named after Julius Harrah, Harrah was officially incorporated on January 23, 1946. In 1950 it had a population of 297.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Harrah, 1915 to 1958

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1915Post officeThe Harrah post office opens
  3. 1927Born hereAlan Angus McDonald is born here
  4. 1958On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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On the map

Harrah on the map, 1958 to 1985

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

Harrah on the 1958 USGS mapHarrah on the 1985 USGS map1958Harrah 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 Harrah.

People over time

Harrah, census by census

01002003004005006007001960198020002020Peak: 625

Between 284 and 625 people in every census since 1950.

8 censuses, 1950–2020.

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

Questions about Harrah’s history

What year was Harrah founded?

The Harrah post office opened in 1915, 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 Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, 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.