Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Most of Guy was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 2001.
The Guy post office opened in 1890, the earliest record of the town by name.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Guy’s history is told.
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Guy yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Guy is a city in Faulkner County, Arkansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, Guy had a population of 752. It is part of the Central Arkansas region.
Its first post office opened in 1890. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 708 to 752 (+6%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Nobody well known was born in Guy itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
The Guy post office opened in 1890, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
5 listings: 5 buildings, among them the Guy High School Gymnasium (listed 1992, the first).
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (5), 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.
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