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History · Potts Camp

Potts Camp’s post office opened in 1875

Most of Potts Camp was built recently: 6% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1972. Below: maps from 1944 on and the census since 1900.

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How Potts Camp began

When was Potts Camp founded?

1875

The Potts Camp post office opened in 1875, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 306 in 19002020 census: 416151 years
Founding year: the first Potts Camp post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Potts Camp’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 Potts Camp 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 Potts Camp’s history is told.

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The story

How Potts Camp came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Potts Camp.

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Potts Camp is rooted in a trading post established along the Pontotoc Trail by Colonel Erasmus Potts in the mid-19th century. The town incorporated in 1912.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Potts Camp, 1875 to 1978

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1875Post officeThe Potts Camp post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1903Born hereAaron L. Ford is born here
  5. 1919Born hereBob Boyd is born here
  6. 1944On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  7. 1978Born hereEm Stone is born here
By decade

Potts Camp, decade by decade

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On the map

Potts Camp on the map, 1944 to 2000

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

Potts Camp on the 1944 USGS mapPotts Camp on the 1982 USGS mapPotts Camp on the 2000 USGS map1944Potts Camp sheet · 1:62,500

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

People over time

Potts Camp, census by census

01002003004005001900192019401960198020002020Peak: 525

Between 306 and 525 people in every census since 1900.

13 censuses, 1900–2020.

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

Famous people

3 famous people were born in Potts Camp

Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.

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Aaron L. FordAmerican politician · b. 1903
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Bob BoydAmerican baseball player · b. 1919
Em StoneAmerican artist · b. 1978
Places that used to be

Old burying grounds

Potts Camp’s post office has been open since 1875.

3cemeteries and burying grounds inside Potts Camp
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US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Questions about Potts Camp’s history

What year was Potts Camp founded?

The Potts Camp post office opened in 1875, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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 Wikimedia Commons (4), 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.