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History · Keiser

Keiser’s post office opened in 1915, and 2 of its places are on the National Register

Most of Keiser was built recently: 1% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1981. Its Register listings are the Keiser School and the Keiser Water Tower. Below: maps from 1939 on and the census since 1940.

1915first post office
2on the National Register
1%homes built before 1940
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How Keiser began

When was Keiser founded?

1915

The Keiser post office opened in 1915, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 452 in 19402020 census: 751111 years
Founding year: the first Keiser post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

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

How Keiser came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Keiser.

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Originally known as "Savage Crossing", Keiser was one of several cities established by prominent late-19th century planter and land developer Robert E. Lee Wilson. The city, which served as a logging outpost and stop on the rail line that connected Wilson and Jonesboro, was named for Wilson's friend, John Keiser. After the forests had been cleared, the city transitioned from a logging town to an agrarian community. The city of Keiser was formally incorporated in 1933.

The Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station established a research farm near Keiser in 1957, and built a regional headquarters in Keiser, the Northeast Research and Extension Center, 1980.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

By decade

Keiser, decade by decade

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On the map

Keiser on the map, 1939 to 1983

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

Keiser on the 1939 USGS mapKeiser on the 1956 USGS mapKeiser on the 1983 USGS map1939Evadale 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 Keiser.

On the National Register

2 historic places in Keiser

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

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first listed
1992
Keiser School
Keiser SchoolKeiser Water Tower
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Keiser Water TowerStructure

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

People over time

Keiser, census by census

02004006008001,00019401960198020002020Peak: 962

Between 452 and 962 people in every census since 1940.

9 censuses, 1940–2020.

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

Questions about Keiser’s history

What year was Keiser founded?

The Keiser post office opened in 1915, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Keiser?

Two places: the Keiser School (listed 1992) and the Keiser Water Tower (2007).

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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 Wikimedia Commons (4), 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.