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History · Casa

Casa’s post office opened in 1854, and 12% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1888 on and the census since 1910.

1854first post office
0on the National Register
12%homes built before 1940
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Quick answers

How Casa began

When was Casa founded?

1854

The Casa post office opened in 1854, the earliest record of the town by name. Wikidata gives 1900.

First census: 310 in 19102020 census: 120172 years
Founding year: the first Casa post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Wikidata: 1900.

What stands out about Casa’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 Casa are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The story so far

Casa, in brief

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

Casa is a town in Perry County, Arkansas, United States. Located in Central Arkansas, the town initially grew due to the mining of coal, harvesting of timber and cultivation of cotton. The Great Depression reduced the population greatly, and the community's economy never recovered. The population was 120 at the 2020 census. Casa is about midway between Ola and Perry. The town is the westernmost municipality within the Little Rock–North Little Rock–Conway Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Its first post office opened in 1854. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 171 to 120 (-30%).

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

By decade

Casa, decade by decade

Today5 recent
Perry-Casa High School2019Perry-Casa High SchoolCasa, Arkansas Post Office2019Casa, Arkansas Post OfficeCasa, Arkansas City Hall2019Casa, Arkansas City HallCasa Water Line Sign2019Casa Water Line SignBuilding in2019Building in
On the map

Casa on the map, 1888 to 1972

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

Casa on the 1888 USGS mapCasa on the 1972 USGS map1888Dardanelle #4 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 Casa.

Every building

Casa, building by building, 1914

Fire insurance maps drew every building, what it was made of and what it was used for, so insurers could price the risk of fire. Pick a sheet.

Casa fire insurance map, 1914, sheet 11914Sheet 1 of 1
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Sanborn Map Company, via the Library of Congress. Editions published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.

People over time

Casa, census by census

0100200300192019401960198020002020Peak: 310

Between 120 and 310 people in every census since 1910.

12 censuses, 1910–2020.

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

Places that used to be

Places now gone

Casa’s post office has been open since 1854.

Gone or out of use
Perry-Casa Elementary SchoolschoolPerry-Casa High Schoolschool

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Questions about Casa’s history

What year was Casa founded?

The Casa post office opened in 1854, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records). Wikidata gives 1900.

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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 (5), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and Sanborn fire insurance maps (Library of Congress). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.