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Most of Menifee was built recently: 4% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1978. Its Register listings are the Menifee High School Gymnasium and the US 64, Menifee Segment, Old. Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1961 on, and the census since 1970.
The Menifee post office opened in 1881, the earliest record of the town by name.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Menifee’s history is told.
Peaked at 368 in 1980; 274 people lived here in 2020.
6 censuses, 1970–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Menifee’s Wikipedia page.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Menifee yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Menifee is a town in Conway County, Arkansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, Menifee had a population of 274.
Its first post office opened in 1881. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 302 to 274 (-9%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Born hereRichard Green is born here
In the archiveColored field hands hoe cotton from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. for sixty cents a day. Near Menifee,…
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyOne decade in the archive so far: the 1930s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Menifee. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Menifee.
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Menifee’s page.
Retake this view · +15The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.
The Menifee post office opened in 1881, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
Two places: the Menifee High School Gymnasium (listed 2002) and the US 64, Menifee Segment, Old (2006).
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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 (1), the Library of Congress (1), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (2), 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) 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.
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