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History · Coy

Coy’s post office opened in 1913

Most of Coy was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1984. Below: maps from 1937 on and the census since 1960.

1913first post office
0on the National Register
0.0%homes built before 1940
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How Coy began

When was Coy founded?

1913

The Coy post office opened in 1913, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 206 in 19602020 census: 87113 years
Founding year: the first Coy post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Coy’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 Coy are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Boom and bustPeaked at 240 in 1970; 87 people lived here in 2020.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Coy’s history is told.

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People over time

Coy, census by census

01002001960198020002020Peak: 240

Peaked at 240 in 1970; 87 people lived here in 2020.

7 censuses, 1960–2020.

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

The story so far

Coy, in brief

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

Coy is a town in southern Lonoke County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 87 at the 2020 census, making it the smallest incorporated community within the Little Rock–North Little Rock–Conway Metropolitan Statistical Area, as well as one of the smallest in the state.

Its first post office opened in 1913. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 96 to 87 (-9%).

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

Timeline

Coy, 1913 to 1970

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1913Post officeThe Coy post office opens
  3. 1937On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  4. 1970CensusPopulation peaks at 240
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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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On the map

Coy on the map, 1937 to 1943

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

Coy on the 1937 USGS mapCoy on the 1943 USGS map1937England 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 Coy.

Questions about Coy’s history

What year was Coy founded?

The Coy post office opened in 1913, 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.