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History · Sulphur Rock

Sulphur Rock’s post office opened in 1834

Most of Sulphur Rock was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 2010. Below: maps from 1986 on and the census since 1880.

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How Sulphur Rock began

When was Sulphur Rock founded?

1834

The Sulphur Rock post office opened in 1834, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 188 in 18802020 census: 609192 years
Founding year: the first Sulphur Rock post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Sulphur Rock’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 Sulphur Rock are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Shrank, then grewLost half of its people between 1890 and 1930, then grew 3-fold.Deep rootsA post office since 1834: 192 years of Sulphur Rock.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Sulphur Rock’s history is told.

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People over time

Sulphur Rock, census by census

010020030040050060018801900192019401960198020002020387 in 1890Low: 177

Lost half of its people between 1890 and 1930, then grew 3-fold.

15 censuses, 1880–2020.

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

Timeline

Sulphur Rock, 1834 to 2020

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1834Post officeThe Sulphur Rock post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1911Born hereA. A. Allen is born here
  5. 1986On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  6. 21st century
  7. 2020CensusPopulation peaks at 609
The story

How Sulphur Rock came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Sulphur Rock.

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The last regular mule-drawn tram line in the United States was the Sulphur Rock Railway, which closed down in 1926.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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

Sulphur Rock on the map in 1986

The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Sulphur Rock.

Sulphur Rock on the 1986 USGS map1986Batesville sheet · 1:100,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Sulphur Rock.

Questions about Sulphur Rock’s history

What year was Sulphur Rock founded?

The Sulphur Rock post office opened in 1834, 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 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) 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.