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History · Weyerhaeuser

27% of Weyerhaeuser’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1972 on and the census since 1910.

0on the National Register
27%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Weyerhaeuser’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 Weyerhaeuser are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The story

How Weyerhaeuser came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Weyerhaeuser.

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The village was named after Frederick Weyerhaeuser of the Weyerhaeuser Lumber company.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Weyerhaeuser, 1884 to 1976

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1884Post officeThe Weyerhauser post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1972On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  5. 1976Post officeThe Weyerhauser post office closes
  6. 1976Post officeThe Weyerhaeuser post office opens
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On the map

Weyerhaeuser on the map, 1972 to 1980

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

Weyerhaeuser on the 1972 USGS mapWeyerhaeuser on the 1980 USGS map1972Weyerhauser 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 Weyerhaeuser.

People over time

Weyerhaeuser, census by census

0100200300400192019401960198020002020Peak: 371

Between 232 and 371 people in every census since 1910.

12 censuses, 1910–2020.

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

Places that used to be

Lost post offices and burying grounds

Weyerhaeuser’s post office has been open since 1976. Another post office, Weyerhauser, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Weyerhauser
1884–1976
Weyerhaeuser
1976–today
18801950today
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Weyerhaeuser
Saints Peter and PaulWeyerhaeuser

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

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

StubbsIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townStricklandIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

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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, 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.