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Cash’s post office opened in 1886

Most of Cash was built recently: 4% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1975. Below: maps from 1935 on and the census since 1940.

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How Cash began

When was Cash founded?

1886

The Cash post office opened in 1886, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 186 in 19402020 census: 280140 years
Founding year: the first Cash post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

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

Cash, in brief

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

Cash is a city in western Craighead County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 280 at the 2020 census. Cash's population was of mostly white with 99.8% and partial Puerto Rican ethnicity. It is included in the Jonesboro, Arkansas Metropolitan Statistical Area. The name "Cash" is a corruption of the Cache River.

Its first post office opened in 1886. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 342 to 280 (-18%).

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

By decade

Cash, decade by decade

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Bare and apparently burned trees near the tiny town of Cash (a version of the name of the nearby Cache River) in Craigh…2020Bare and apparently burned trees near the tiny town o…Gravel road leading to a distant grain elevator near the tiny town of Cash (a version of the name of the nearby Cache R…2020Gravel road leading to a distant grain elevator near …Fall scene near a small cypress pond near the tiny town of Cash (a version of the name of the nearby Cache River) in Cr…2020Fall scene near a small cypress pond near the tiny to…Rusted water containers near the tiny town of Cash (a version of the name of the nearby Cache River) in Craighead Count…2020Rusted water containers near the tiny town of Cash (a…Large, but abandoned, grain-elevator complex near the tiny town of Cash (a version of the name of the nearby Cache Rive…2020Large, but abandoned, grain-elevator complex near the…View down rural railroad tracks near the tiny town of Cash (a version of the name of the nearby Cache River) in Craighe…2020View down rural railroad tracks near the tiny town of…
On the map

Cash on the map, 1935 to 1980

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

Cash on the 1935 USGS mapCash on the 1959 USGS mapCash on the 1960 USGS mapCash on the 1980 USGS map1935Sedgwick 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 Cash.

People over time

Cash, census by census

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Between 141 and 342 people in every census since 1940.

9 censuses, 1940–2020.

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

Places that used to be

Places now gone

Cash’s post office has been open since 1886.

Gone or out of use
Cash Schoolschool

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

Questions about Cash’s history

What year was Cash founded?

The Cash post office opened in 1886, 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 the Library of Congress (6), 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.