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History · Baggs

Baggs’ post office opened in 1879, and 15% of its homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the First State Bank of Baggs. Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1957 on, and the census since 1920.

1879first post office
1on the National Register
15%homes built before 1940
1old photo or paper
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Quick answers

How Baggs began

When was Baggs founded?

1879

The Baggs post office opened in 1879, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 200 in 19202020 census: 411147 years
Founding year: the first Baggs post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Baggs’ past

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

A history waiting to be writtenOnly 1 old photo is in the public archives. The rest are in attics and albums.
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Start Baggs’s collection

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

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
1 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Retake an old viewBJ Drive-In ice cream sign, Route 789: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
The story so far

Baggs, in brief

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

Baggs is a town in Carbon County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 411 at the 2020 census. Baggs is home to the Outlaw Stop, a branch of the Little Snake River Museum, which is headquartered in Savery. It was incorporated in 1910.

Its first post office opened in 1879. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 440 to 411 (-7%).

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

Timeline

Baggs, 1879 to 1980

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1879Post officeThe Baggs post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1957On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  5. 1980In the archiveBJ Drive-In ice cream sign, Route 789
By decade

Baggs, decade by decade

One decade in the archive so far: the 1980s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

1980s1 item
BJ Drive-In ice cream sign, Route 7891980BJ Drive-In ice cream sign, Route 789
1990snothing yet
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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Today7 recent
The Castle Shoppe in the tiny town of Baggs, Wyoming, does not sell castles. Instead, it is an "odds and ends" shop acc…2016The Castle Shoppe in the tiny town of Baggs, Wyoming,…A wind (and snow) swept meadow and hill in Carbon County, near Baggs, Wyoming2016A wind (and snow) swept meadow and hill in Carbon Cou…A wind (and snow) swept meadow and hill in Carbon County, near Baggs, Wyoming2016A wind (and snow) swept meadow and hill in Carbon Cou…The welcome sign to Baggs, a small town in Carbon County, Wyoming2016The welcome sign to Baggs, a small town in Carbon Cou…First State Bank of2014First State Bank ofBaggs, Wyoming2014Baggs, WyomingWYMap-doton-Baggs2004WYMap-doton-Baggs
On the map

Baggs on the map, 1957 to 1982

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

Baggs on the 1957 USGS mapBaggs on the 1975 USGS mapBaggs on the 1982 USGS map1957Baggs 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 Baggs.

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.

BJ Drive-In ice cream sign, Route 789
Retake this viewBJ Drive-In ice cream sign, Route 789, 1980

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

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On the National Register

1 historic place in Baggs

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

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts
first listed
1984
First State Bank of Baggs
First State Bank of Baggs
Buildings
First State Bank of BaggsBuilding

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

People over time

Baggs, census by census

0100200300400192019401960198020002020Peak: 440

Between 146 and 440 people in every census since 1920.

11 censuses, 1920–2020.

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

Questions about Baggs’ history

What year was Baggs founded?

The Baggs post office opened in 1879, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Baggs?

One place: the First State Bank of Baggs (listed 1984).

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 Wikimedia Commons (4), the Library of Congress (4), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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.