Anchorhead was founded after a Old Republic sought worthful mineral resources in Tatooine's surface. It & Fort Tusken were a number one settlements on the planet.

Within Star Wars: A New Hope, Luke asks his Uncle Owen Lars if he can watch occasionally of his friends there. He too offers to choose Obi-Wan Kenobi to the settlement, in which Obi-Wan may develop the shuttle to "Mos Eisley or wherever [he is] going." Inside the deleted scene, Luke may be seen there by using Biggs Darklighter, who would fight along side Luke in the Battle of Yavin.

In the LucasArts game Star Wars Galaxies, Anchorhead is described as a town in which victims sympathetic to the Rebels can walk call at the open, & noted that "If there was any town on Tatooine that was the farthest from Imperial rule, Anchorhead would be the one."

Anchorhead besides appeared in the LucasArts video game Knights of the Old Republic, where Anchorhead was a Tatooine landing side for the player's ship, a Ebon Hawk. Anchorhead was depicted as an early mining community & hunting station. It was redo per popular Czerka Corporation and was famous for hunting wraids, swoop racing and mining. A mining operation, even so, was non running as swell well, since Tatooine actually didn't have anything worth mining & a Sand People often terrorized mining activity, discouraging miners. Unknown to the residents, but the Star Map lay in the nearby Krayt dragon inhabited cave; also in Return of the Jedi Special Edition a T-16 Skyhopper is flying over ii buildings.