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History · Luxora

Luxora’s post office opened in 1894

Most of Luxora was built recently: 6% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1972. Below: maps from 1913 on and the census since 1900.

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Quick answers

How Luxora began

When was Luxora founded?

1894

The Luxora post office opened in 1894, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 943 in 19002020 census: 942132 years
Founding year: the first Luxora post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Luxora’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 Luxora are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Boom and bustPeaked at 1,739 in 1980; 942 people lived here in 2020.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Luxora’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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People over time

Luxora, census by census

02004006008001,0001,2001,4001,6001,8001900192019401960198020002020Peak: 1,739

Peaked at 1,739 in 1980; 942 people lived here in 2020.

13 censuses, 1900–2020.

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

The story

How Luxora came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Luxora.

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The city was originally settled as the community of Elmot Landing in the 1880s next to the Mississippi River. By 1897, the town had moved inland, behind the federal levee and was incorporated as Luxora, named after the daughter of a local businessman.

During World War II, the Civil Aeronautics Authority operated an intermediate landing field in the vicinity of Luxora. This field was also utilized by Air Cadets at Blytheville Army Airfield and Walnut Ridge Army Air Field during the war.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Luxora, 1890 to 1980

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1890Born hereZach Curlin is born here
  3. 1894Post officeThe Luxora post office opens
  4. 20th century
  5. 1972On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  6. 1980CensusPopulation peaks at 1,739
By decade

Luxora, decade by decade

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On the map

Luxora on the map, 1972 to 1986

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

Luxora on the 1972 USGS mapLuxora on the 1986 USGS map1972Luxora 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 Luxora.

Every building

Luxora, building by building, 1913–1919

Fire insurance maps drew every building, what it was made of and what it was used for, so insurers could price the risk of fire. Pick a year, then a sheet.

Luxora fire insurance map, 1913, sheet 11913Sheet 1 of 1
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Sanborn Map Company, via the Library of Congress. Editions published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.

Questions about Luxora’s history

What year was Luxora founded?

The Luxora post office opened in 1894, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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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 Wikimedia Commons (2), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and Sanborn fire insurance maps (Library of Congress). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.