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History · Banks

Banks’ post office opened in 1906

Most of Banks was built recently: 10% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1975. Below: maps from 1973 on and the census since 1910.

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How Banks began

When was Banks founded?

1906

The Banks post office opened in 1906, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 244 in 19102020 census: 87120 years
Founding year: the first Banks post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Banks’ 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 Banks are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Boom and bustPeaked at 347 in 1920; 87 people lived here in 2020.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Banks’s history is told.

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People over time

Banks, census by census

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Peaked at 347 in 1920; 87 people lived here in 2020.

12 censuses, 1910–2020.

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

The story so far

Banks, in brief

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

Banks is a town in Bradley County, Arkansas, United States. As of the 2020 census the population was 87.

Its first post office opened in 1906. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 124 to 87 (-30%).

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

Timeline

Banks, 1906 to 1973

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1906Post officeThe Banks post office opens
  3. 1920CensusPopulation peaks at 347
  4. 1973On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Banks, decade by decade

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On the map

Banks on the map, 1973 to 1985

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

Banks on the 1973 USGS mapBanks on the 1985 USGS map1973Banks sheet · 1:24,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Banks.

Questions about Banks’ history

What year was Banks founded?

The Banks post office opened in 1906, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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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 Wikimedia Commons (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.