Most of Wooster was built recently: 0.5% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 2005. Its Register listing is the Patton House. Below: maps from 1961 on and the census since 1960.
Founding year: the first Wooster post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).
History grade
What drives Wooster’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Wooster is more historic than 26% of U.S. towns. Its National Register listings hold the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls it down.
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HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Wooster’s overall grade.
Arkansas towns list more on the Register than most of the country (a typical Arkansas town has 20.5 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Wooster’s 19.6 sits near the middle of its state (52% of Arkansas towns have fewer) while its 2 historic buildings outnumber those of 60% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from D to C+. The pre-1940 share (±1.0 points) is firm at this size. The founding year is the first post office, not a stated founding date.
Founding year: the first post office (other dates in Quick answers). Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →
What stands out about Wooster’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Wooster yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Wooster is a city in Faulkner County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 1,042 at the 2020 census, up from 860 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Central Arkansas region.
Its first post office opened in 1881. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 860 to 1,042 (+21%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
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.
Be the first to add onePhotograph a print flat, in daylight, no flash.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Questions about Wooster’s history
What year was Wooster founded?
The Wooster post office opened in 1881, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
How does Wooster rank for history?
Wooster is more historic than 26% of U.S. towns. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
What is on the National Register in Wooster?
One place: the Patton House (listed 1993).
How old are the homes in Wooster?
0.5% of Wooster’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±1.0 points), against a typical 3.1% for an Arkansas town; the median home was built in 2005.
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).
From the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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.
