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History · Marie

Marie’s post office opened in 1903, and 33% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1939 on and the census since 1970.

1903first post office
0on the National Register
33%homes built before 1940
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How Marie began

When was Marie founded?

1903

The Marie post office opened in 1903, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 72 in 19702020 census: 108123 years
Founding year: the first Marie post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Marie’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 Marie are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Boom and bustPeaked at 287 in 1980; 108 people lived here in 2020.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Marie’s history is told.

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People over time

Marie, census by census

0100200300198020002020Peak: 287

Peaked at 287 in 1980; 108 people lived here in 2020.

6 censuses, 1970–2020.

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

The story so far

Marie, in brief

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

Marie is a town in Mississippi County, Arkansas, United States. It was founded by the R.E.L. Wilson cotton company. The population was 108 at the 2020 census.

Its first post office opened in 1903. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 84 to 108 (+29%).

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

Timeline

Marie, 1903 to 1980

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1903Post officeThe Marie post office opens
  3. 1935Post officeThe Marie post office closes
  4. 1939On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  5. 1980CensusPopulation peaks at 287
By decade

No old photos in the archives yet

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

Marie on the map, 1939 to 1983

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

Marie on the 1939 USGS mapMarie on the 1956 USGS mapMarie 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 Marie.

Places that used to be

Lost post offices

Marie had its own post office from 1903 to 1935.

Marie
1903–1935
19001960today

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

Questions about Marie’s history

What year was Marie founded?

The Marie post office opened in 1903, 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.