Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Most of Tumbling Shoals was built recently: 1% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1985. Below: maps from 1890 on.
The Tumbling Shoals post office opened in 1921, 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 Tumbling Shoals’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Tumbling Shoals. 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 Tumbling Shoals.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Tumbling Shoals yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Tumbling Shoals is a census-designated place in Cleburne County, Arkansas, United States. Per the 2020 census, the population was 902.
Its first post office opened in 1921. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 978 to 902 (-8%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Nobody well known was born in Tumbling Shoals itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Tumbling Shoals’s post office has been open since 1921.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
The Tumbling Shoals post office opened in 1921, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
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 U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, 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.
