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History · Adona

Adona’s post office opened in 1879, and 28% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1889 on and the census since 1920.

1879first post office
0on the National Register
28%homes built before 1940
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How Adona began

When was Adona founded?

1879

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

First census: 241 in 19202020 census: 149147 years
Founding year: the first Adona post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Adona’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 Adona are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.On the map since 18893 editions of the USGS map, 1889 to 1984. Watch Adona change.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Adona’s history is told.

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On the map

Adona on the map, 1889 to 1984

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

Adona on the 1889 USGS mapAdona on the 1961 USGS mapAdona on the 1984 USGS map1889Morrilton No 3 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 Adona.

The story so far

Adona, in brief

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

Adona is a city in Perry County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 149 at the 2020 census.

Its first post office opened in 1879. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 209 to 149 (-29%).

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

By decade

No old photos in the archives yet

Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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People over time

Adona, census by census

0100200192019401960198020002020Peak: 241

Between 146 and 241 people in every census since 1920.

11 censuses, 1920–2020.

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

Famous people

Famous people close to Adona

Nobody well known was born in Adona itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Tom CottonAmerican politician and army officer · b. 1977
Scott BradleyAmerican composer · b. 1891
Corliss WilliamsonAmerican basketball player · b. 1973
Steve WomackU.S. Representative from Arkansas · b. 1957
Rebecca RoanhorseAmerican speculative fiction author · b. 1971
Ray ThorntonAmerican politician · b. 1928

Questions about Adona’s history

What year was Adona founded?

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

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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 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.