Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: maps from 1939 on and the census since 1880.
The Walker post office opened in 1871, 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 Walker’s history is told.
Peaked at 594 in 1890; 199 people lived here in 2020.
15 censuses, 1880–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Walker’s Wikipedia page.
From Wikipedia’s history of Walker.
Walker had its start when the railroad was extended to that point. The town site was platted in 1870. The city was named for Hiram F. Walker, an early resident. A post office has been in operation at Walker since 1871. The city was incorporated in 1886.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Walker, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Smith, Pat Maxey, and B. J. Clinton to various portions of the township, all before the Civil War. Indeed, Walker township did not exist as a separate municipality until after the building of the M., K. & T. railroad and after the town of Walker had been laid out.
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
City and lived there some five years, after which he came back home. From 1899 till 1903 Mr. Ewing served as deputy recorder at Nevada, and then after a short trip into Arkansas, settled at Walker, Vernon county, and took charge of the Ewing farm, which he has since conducted, giving particular attention to raising and feeding stock for the market, in which he has achieved gratifying success. He also conducts a meat market at Walker, which he opened in 1910.
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Walker. 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 Walker.
Nobody well known was born in Walker itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
The Walker post office opened in 1871, 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 Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
