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History · Beaver

Beaver’s post office opened in 1881, and 11% of its homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the Beaver Bridge. Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1957 on, and the census since 1960.

1881first post office
1on the National Register
11%homes built before 1940
1old photo or paper
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Quick answers

How Beaver began

When was Beaver founded?

1881

The Beaver post office opened in 1881, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 24 in 19602020 census: 67145 years
Founding year: the first Beaver post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Beaver’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenOnly 1 old photo is in the public archives. The rest are in attics and albums.Boom and bustPeaked at 100 in 2010; 67 people lived here in 2020.
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Start Beaver’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Beaver’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Date a photo1 archive item has no date. Guess the decade.+2Retake an old viewBeaver Bridge, Spanning White River at …: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
People over time

Beaver, census by census

01001960198020002020Peak: 100

Peaked at 100 in 2010; 67 people lived here in 2020.

5 censuses, 1960–2020.

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

The story so far

Beaver, in brief

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

Beaver is a town in Carroll County, Arkansas, United States. As of the 2020 census it had a population of 67. The community is located on the White River at the western limits of Table Rock Lake deep in the Ozark Mountains. Located north of Eureka Springs, the small town has been featured in movies for its picturesque scenery. The town is known for the Beaver Bridge, a two-panel suspension bridge over the White River listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Its first post office opened in 1881. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 100 to 67 (-33%).

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

Timeline

Beaver, 1881 to 2010

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1881Post officeThe Beaver post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1957On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  5. 21st century
  6. 2010CensusPopulation peaks at 100
By decade

Beaver, decade by decade

Date unknown1 to date
Beaver Bridge, Spanning White River at State Highway No. 187Date?Beaver Bridge, Spanning White River at State Highway …
Today4 recent
"Little Golden Gate" Bridge2026"Little Golden Gate" BridgeBeaver AR Post Office2013Beaver AR Post OfficeTrain trestle in2011Train trestle inBeaver, Arkansas2011Beaver, Arkansas
On the map

Beaver on the map, 1957 to 1976

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

Beaver on the 1957 USGS mapBeaver on the 1976 USGS map1957Beaver 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 Beaver.

Then & now

Stand where they stood

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.

Beaver Bridge, Spanning White River at State Highway No. 187
Retake this viewBeaver Bridge, Spanning White River at State Highway No. 187

Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Beaver’s page.

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On the National Register

1 historic place in Beaver

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts
first listed
1990
Beaver Bridge
Beaver Bridge
Structures
Beaver BridgeStructure

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Famous people

Famous people close to Beaver

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

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Helen Gurley BrownAmerican author, publisher, and businesswoman · b. 1922
Matt CornettAmerican actor · b. 1998
Loy W. HendersonAmerican diplomat · b. 1892
Pat BurrellAmerican professional baseball outfielder · b. 1976
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Clyde Taylor EllisAmerican politician · b. 1908
David Crockett GrahamAmerican Baptist missionary, anthropologist, ed… · b. 1884

Questions about Beaver’s history

What year was Beaver founded?

The Beaver post office opened in 1881, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Beaver?

One place: the Beaver Bridge (listed 1990).

Memory lane

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

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Sources

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 (4), the Library of Congress (1), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (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.