Homesteaders settled the area during the early 1900s. There were still wild horses from the Indian days roaming the country then. By 1908 the Knob Hill folks felt there was enough population that a better mail service was due them. They were granted a rural route out of Chesaw.

The schoolhouse was located by the Bake Lakes, a short distance from where the Knob Hill Grange hall was built. The area never had a town or post office.

A water powered sawmill was built on nearby Myers Creek in 1904. Its water wheel was 35 feet in diameter and 4 feet wide.

Times have changed but Knob Hill remains today.