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History · Quitman

Quitman’s post office opened in 1848, and 2 of its places are on the National Register

Most of Quitman was built recently: 6% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1980. Its Register listings are the Quitman Home Economics Building and the Gunn, O.D., Trade and Sale Barn. Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1963 on, and the census since 1880.

1848first post office
2on the National Register
6%homes built before 1940
1old photo or paper
1famous people
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Quick answers

How Quitman began

When was Quitman founded?

1848

The Quitman post office opened in 1848, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 177 in 18802020 census: 694178 years
Founding year: the first Quitman post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Quitman’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenOnly 1 old photo is in the public archives. The rest are in attics and albums.Shrank, then grewLost a third of its people between 1910 and 1960, then more than doubled.Deep rootsA post office since 1848: 178 years of Quitman.
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Start Quitman’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Quitman’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Date a photo1 archive item has no date. Guess the decade.+2Retake an old viewQuitman High School Arkansas: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
People over time

Quitman, census by census

020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020471 in 1910Low: 305

Lost a third of its people between 1910 and 1960, then more than doubled.

15 censuses, 1880–2020.

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

Timeline

Quitman, 1848 to 2010

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1848Post officeThe Quitman post office opens
  3. 1899Born herePaul Gunn is born here
  4. 20th century
  5. 1963On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  6. 21st century
  7. 2010CensusPopulation peaks at 762
The story so far

Quitman, in brief

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

Quitman is a city in Cleburne and Faulkner counties in the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of the 2020 census, Quitman had a population of 694. The portion of the city in Faulkner County is part of the Central Arkansas region.

Its first post office opened in 1848. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 762 to 694 (-9%).

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

By decade

Quitman, decade by decade

Date unknown1 to date
Quitman High School ArkansasDate?Quitman High School Arkansas
Today4 recent
Highway 25 in2020Highway 25 inCity of Quitman, Arkansas Library2020City of Quitman, Arkansas LibraryQuitman Home Economics Building in2018Quitman Home Economics Building inQuitman Home Economics Building2015Quitman Home Economics Building
On the map

Quitman on the map, 1963 to 1991

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

Quitman on the 1963 USGS mapQuitman on the 1975 USGS mapQuitman on the 1991 USGS map1963Quitman 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 Quitman.

Then & now

Stand where they stood

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.

Quitman High School Arkansas
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Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Quitman’s page.

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On the National Register

2 historic places in Quitman

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

places listed
2
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
2
each building in a district counts
first listed
1992
Quitman Home Economics Building
Quitman Home Economics BuildingGunn, O.D., Trade and Sale Barn
Buildings
Quitman Home Economics BuildingBuilding
Gunn, O.D., Trade and Sale BarnBuilding

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

Questions about Quitman’s history

What year was Quitman founded?

The Quitman post office opened in 1848, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Quitman?

Two places: the Quitman Home Economics Building (listed 1992) and the Gunn, O.D., Trade and Sale Barn (2016).

Memory lane

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

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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 (5), 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.