Post Offices
Mail delivery first began in North America during the seventeenth century. Prior to the availability of the telegraph, telephone, radio, television, or worldwide web, mail served as the only means of written communication between different locales. The United States’ early mail system proved to be primitive, slow, and often undependable. But as the nation grew, so did its postal system. As American settlers moved west and occupied new lands, their commerce and communication needs demanded dependable, affordable mail service. One of the new places served by the nation’s postal service was Arkansas.
Information about Arkansas post offices on this webpage includes the name of the post office, date of establishment, location, and county. Sources used in compiling this data include official postal service records, “Records of Appointments of Postmasters, Arkansas, 1832-1871” and “Geographic Site Location Reports, 1852-1945.” Also utilized were various editions of the Arkansas Gazette and Arkansas Democrat, several volumes of the Territorial Papers of the United States, and the Works Projects Administration’s “List of Post Offices in Arkansas 1817-1874, Inclusive.” The most comprehensive printed compilation of post office information is found in Arkansas History Commission Archival Manager Russell Baker’s Arkansas Post Offices from Memdag to Norsk: A Historical Directory, 1832-1990, published by the Arkansas Genealogical Society.
Post Office |
Est. |
Closed |
Location |
Comments |
Alcandra |
1872 |
1873 |
9-9S-9W |
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Argo |
1896 |
1900 |
32-9S-8W |
Was to be Ray; Mail to Palmyra |
Auburn |
1860 |
|
6-7S-6W |
From Arkansas County, 1881; Changed to Douglas, 1883 |
Avery |
1891 |
1916 |
18-9S-5W |
Mail to Meroney |
Bago |
1880 |
1881 |
17-8S-8W |
|
Bradley |
1868 |
1889 |
|
From Bradley County 1871; To Cleveland County 1873 |
Brakeville |
1881 |
1884 |
19-9S-5W |
Mail to Star City |
Branchville |
1858 |
|
6-10S-7W |
From Drew County, 1871; Changed to Star City, 1872 |
Cades |
|
|
|
See Cadeston |
Cadeston/Cader |
1909 |
1914 |
22-8S-5W |
Local name, Richholt; Mail to Gould; See Lyko |
Cadyville |
1897 |
1897 |
|
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Choctaw |
|
|
|
See Mills |
Cornesville |
1872 |
1953 |
16-10S-8W |
Mail to Palmyra |
Crigler |
|
1957 |
6-9S-6W |
Changed from Furth, 1937; Mail to Star City |
Cummins |
1884 |
1925 |
21-7S-5W |
Mail to Varner |
Damon |
1903 |
1911 |
31-8S-6W |
Mail to Star City |
Douglas |
|
1927 |
1-8S-5W |
Changed from Auburn, 1881; Mail to Gould |
Edlil |
1892 |
1915 |
27-9S-7W |
Mail to Star City |
Elm Grove |
|
|
|
See Sarassa |
Feenyville/Feeneyville |
1893 |
1918 |
3-9S-8W |
Named for John A. Feeny, Postmaster; Mail to Star City |
Fresno |
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|
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See Deep Bayou |
Frotlen Plantation(?) |
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|
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See Sarassa |
Furth |
1902 |
|
2-9S-7W |
Changed to Crigler, 1937 |
Garnett |
1879 |
1933 |
11-10S-7W |
Mail to Star City |
Gary |
1897 |
1902 |
29-7S-6W |
Was to be Shannon; Mail to Grady |
Glendale |
1884 |
1958 |
5-9S-8W |
Mail to Star City |
Gould |
|
|
35-8S-5W |
Changed from Joslyn, 1907 |
Gourd |
1902 |
1917 |
15-10S-5W |
Mail to Walnut Lake |
Grady |
|
|
33-7S-6W |
Changed from Williamsburgh, 1885 |
Green Mount |
1855 |
1880 |
20-10S-6W |
From Drew County, 1877; Changed to Tyro, 1879; Back to Green Mount, 1880 |
Handly |
1912 |
1913 |
24-8S-5W |
Was to be Happy Hollow; Mail to Varner |
Happy Hollow |
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|
|
See Handly |
Heckatoo |
1876 |
1894 |
17-7S-5W |
Mail to Cummins |
Jones Ferry |
|
|
|
See Warrenton |
Joslyn |
1904 |
|
35-8S-5W |
Named for George H. Joslyn, Postmaster; Changed to Gould, 1907 |
Little |
1895 |
1895 |
11-10S-5W |
Mail to Tyro |
Lone Pine |
|
|
|
See Lyle |
Lyko |
1921 |
1927 |
22-8S-5W |
Was to be Cades; Mail to Gould |
Lyle |
1903 |
1914 |
27-10S-7W |
Named for Henry D. Lyle, Postmaster; Was to be Lone Pine |
Manteo |
|
|
|
See Terry |
Melton Creek/Melton |
1868 |
1877 |
8-8S-8W |
From Jefferson County, 1871; Back to Jefferson County before 1877 |
Meroney |
1910 |
1931 |
5-9S-6W |
Mail to Gould |
Mikado |
1906 |
1908 |
6-9S-5W |
Was to be Walhallah; Mail to Avery |
Mills |
1895 |
1914 |
14-9S-5W |
Was to be Choctaw; Mail to Dumas |
Palmyra |
1877 |
1957 |
20-9S-8W |
|
Pendleton |
1867 |
1926 |
28-8S-3W |
From Arkansas County, 1871; To Desha County, 1883 |
Phenix |
1894 |
|
14-8S-7W |
Changed to Yorktown, 1943 |
Puryear |
1898 |
1901 |
32-9S-5W |
Named for William F. Puryear, Postmaster |
Ray |
|
|
|
See Argo |
Relf's Bluff |
1850 |
1854 |
32-10S-7W |
From Drew County 1871; Mail to Star City |
Rest |
1892 |
1924 |
2-10S-8W |
Mail to Star City |
Richholt |
|
|
|
See Cadeston |
Sarassa |
1870 |
1918 |
25-7S-6W |
Was to be Elm Grove; From Arkansas County, 1871; Local name, Frotlen Plantation; Mail to Grady |
Shannon |
|
|
|
See Gary |
Smith |
1895 |
1902 |
29-9S-7W |
Mail to Star City |
South Bend |
1835 |
1925 |
3-8S-4W |
From Arkansas County, 1871 |
Staple |
1908 |
1926 |
18-8S-4W |
Mail to Gould |
Star City |
|
|
8-9S-7W |
Changed from Branchville, 1872 |
Tarry |
1892 |
1965 |
30-7S-7W |
Was to be Manteo; Mail to Star City |
Todd |
1908 |
1927 |
20-9S-6W |
Mail to Moroney |
Toledo |
|
1913 |
|
Changed from Pleasant Ridge, 1873; To Cleveland County, 1873 |
Tyro |
1880 |
1953 |
16-10S-6W |
Mail to Pickens |
Tyro |
|
|
21-10S-6W |
Changed from Green Mount, 1879; Changed back, 1880 |
Varner |
1874 |
1958 |
8-8S-5W |
Mail to Gould |
Villavale |
1903 |
1909 |
15-8S-8W |
Mail to Star City |
Walhallah |
|
|
|
See Mikado |
Warrenton |
188? |
1923 |
17-10S-5W |
Was to be Jones Ferry; Mail to Tyro |
Williamsburgh |
1876 |
|
|
Named for James P. Williams, Postmaster; Changed to Grady, 1885 |
Yorktown |
|
|
16-8S-7W |
Changed from Phenix, 1943 |
Yorktown |
1881 |
1921 |
16-8S-7W |
Mail to Terry |
Youngtown |
1908 |
1917 |
5-7S-6W |
Named for Edward Young; Mail to Moscow |