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History · Jacksonport

Jacksonport’s post office opened in 1850, and 2 of its places are on the National Register

Most of Jacksonport was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1988. 2 places in town are on the National Register, among them a historic district with 1 buildings. Below: maps from 1935 on and the census since 1870.

1850first post office
2on the National Register
0.0%homes built before 1940
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How Jacksonport began

When was Jacksonport founded?

1850

The Jacksonport post office opened in 1850, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 769 in 18702020 census: 150176 years
Founding year: the first Jacksonport post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Jacksonport’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 Jacksonport are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Jacksonport’s history is told.

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The story

How Jacksonport came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Jacksonport.

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Jacksonport was once an important steamboat stop on the White River. During the Civil War the town served as a transportation hub for Confederate forces.

Jacksonport was the terminus of the Batesville and Brinkley Railroad, later called the White and Black River Valley Railway, which reached the town from Brinkley, Arkansas in November 1886. The line was subsequently operated by the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway until closed in 1940.

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Timeline

Jacksonport, 1850 to 1965

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1850Post officeThe Jacksonport post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1935On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  5. 1965BuiltJacksonport State Park is built
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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

Jacksonport on the map, 1935 to 1981

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

Jacksonport on the 1935 USGS mapJacksonport on the 1962 USGS mapJacksonport on the 1981 USGS map1935Newport 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 Jacksonport.

On the National Register

2 historic places in Jacksonport

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

places listed
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National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
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each building in a district counts
first listed
1970
Jacksonport State Park
Jacksonport State Park, built 1965Jackson Guards Memorial
DistrictsObjects
Jacksonport State ParkBuilt 1965
Jackson Guards MemorialObject

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

People over time

Jacksonport, census by census

020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020Peak: 769

Between 150 and 769 people in every census since 1870.

13 censuses, 1870–2020.

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

Questions about Jacksonport’s history

What year was Jacksonport founded?

The Jacksonport post office opened in 1850, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Jacksonport?

Two places: the Jacksonport State Park (listed 1970) and the Jackson Guards Memorial (1996).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Sources

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 Wikidata (2), the National Register of Historic Places (2), Wikipedia, 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.