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History · Mount Pleasant

Mount Pleasant’s post office opened in 1914

Most of Mount Pleasant was built recently: 3% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1985. Below: maps from 1942 on and the census since 1970.

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How Mount Pleasant began

When was Mount Pleasant founded?

1914

The Mount Pleasant post office opened in 1914, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, Barren Fork (1876) and Stella (1894), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

First census: 346 in 19702020 census: 353112 years
Founding year: the first Mount Pleasant post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Mount Pleasant’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 Mount Pleasant are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Mount Pleasant, and 1 old place names are still on the map.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Mount Pleasant’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners and places now gone

Mount Pleasant’s post office has been open since 1914. Two other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Barren Fork
1876–1914
Stella
1894–1955
Mount Pleasant
1914–today
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Hamlets and corners on the map
Stella
Gone or out of use
Rudolph Prospectmine

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

The story so far

Mount Pleasant, in brief

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

Mount Pleasant is a town in Izard County, Arkansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the town population was 353.

Its first post office opened in 1914. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 414 to 353 (-15%).

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

Timeline

Mount Pleasant, 1876 to 1955

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1876Post officeThe Barren Fork post office opens
  3. 1894Post officeThe Stella post office opens
  4. 20th century
  5. 1914Post officeThe Barren Fork post office closes
  6. 1914Post officeThe Mount Pleasant post office opens
  7. 1942On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  8. 1955Post officeThe Stella post office closes
By decade

Mount Pleasant, decade by decade

Today3 recent
Mount Pleasant High School 19912019Mount Pleasant High School 1991Averitt House2016Averitt HouseARMap-doton-Mount Pleasant2005ARMap-doton-Mount Pleasant
On the map

Mount Pleasant on the map, 1942 to 1989

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

Mount Pleasant on the 1942 USGS mapMount Pleasant on the 1989 USGS map1942Mt Pleasant 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 Mount Pleasant.

People over time

Mount Pleasant, census by census

0100200300400198020002020Peak: 438

Between 346 and 438 people in every census since 1970.

6 censuses, 1970–2020.

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

Questions about Mount Pleasant’s history

What year was Mount Pleasant founded?

The Mount Pleasant post office opened in 1914, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

Memory lane

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

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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 (3), 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.