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History · Warm Springs

Warm Springs’ post office opened in 1878, and 1 of its places is on the National Register

Its Register listing is the Hillyard Cabin. Below: maps from 1967 on.

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How Warm Springs began

When was Warm Springs founded?

1878

The Warm Springs post office opened in 1878, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 47148 years
Founding year: the first Warm Springs post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Warm Springs’ 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 Warm Springs are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Warm Springs’s history is told.

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The story so far

Warm Springs, in brief

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

Warm Springs is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Randolph County, Arkansas, United States. Warm Springs is located on Arkansas Highway 251, 15.5 miles (24.9 km) north-northwest of Pocahontas. It was first listed as a CDP in the 2020 census with a population of 47. Warm Springs has a ZIP Code of 72478, but does not have a post office nor a collection box.

Its first post office opened in 1878.

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

Timeline

Warm Springs, 1878 to 1967

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1878Post officeThe Warm Springs post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1943Born hereHarmon Seawel is born here
  5. 1965Post officeThe Warm Springs post office closes
  6. 1967On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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

Warm Springs on the map, 1967 to 1981

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

Warm Springs on the 1967 USGS mapWarm Springs on the 1981 USGS map1967Warm Springs 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 Warm Springs.

On the National Register

1 historic place in Warm Springs

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

place listed
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National Historic Landmarks
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historic buildings protected
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first listed
1994
Hillyard Cabin
Hillyard Cabin
Buildings
Hillyard CabinBuilding

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

Places that used to be

Lost post offices, places now gone and burying grounds

Warm Springs had its own post office from 1878 to 1965.

Warm Springs
1878–1965
18701950today
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Warm Springs Post Officepost office
1cemetery inside Warm Springs
Warm Springs

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

Questions about Warm Springs’ history

What year was Warm Springs founded?

The Warm Springs post office opened in 1878, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Warm Springs?

One place: the Hillyard Cabin (listed 1994).

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 the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, 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.