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History · Holland

Holland’s post office opened in 1878

Most of Holland was built recently: 2% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1994. Below: maps from 1961 on and the census since 2000.

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How Holland began

When was Holland founded?

1878

The Holland post office opened in 1878, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 577 in 20002020 census: 586148 years
Founding year: the first Holland post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

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

Holland, in brief

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

Holland is a city in Faulkner County, Arkansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, Holland had a population of 586. It is part of the Central Arkansas region. Holland gained media attention after 13-year-old Kacie Woody was reported missing from her home in this area in 2002; an investigation revealed that she was abducted by a California man she befriended online while he had pretended to be a teen boy. The next day their bodies were found inside a storage unit in Conway, after he had fatally shot her and later himself. Woody's father then founded the Kacie Woody Foundation in order to educate parents and children about Internet safety.

Its first post office opened in 1878. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 557 to 586 (+5%).

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

Timeline

Holland, 1878 to 1961

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1878Post officeThe Holland post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1939Post officeThe Holland post office closes
  5. 1961On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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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

Holland on the map, 1961 to 1994

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

Holland on the 1961 USGS mapHolland on the 1994 USGS map1961Holland 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 Holland.

People over time

Holland, census by census

010020030040050060020002020Peak: 586

Between 557 and 586 people in every census since 2000.

3 censuses, 2000–2020.

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

Famous people

Famous people close to Holland

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

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Kris AllenAmerican musician and singer-songwriter · b. 1985
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Rocky GrayAmerican musician · b. 1974
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Nick SmithAmerican basketball player · b. 2004
Rebecca RoanhorseAmerican speculative fiction author · b. 1971
Ray ThorntonAmerican politician · b. 1928
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Archie ClarkAmerican basketball player · b. 1941
Places that used to be

Lost post offices, places now gone and burying grounds

Holland had its own post office from 1878 to 1939.

Holland
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18701950today
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Oakland Schoolschool
1cemetery inside Holland
Oakland

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

Questions about Holland’s history

What year was Holland founded?

The Holland post office opened in 1878, 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.