Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Its Register listing is the Finch Memorial Library. Below: maps from 1972 on and the census since 1910.
The Arnold post office opened in 1877, 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 Arnold’s history is told.
Peaked at 936 in 1950; 592 people lived here in 2020.
12 censuses, 1910–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Arnold’s Wikipedia page.
From Wikipedia’s history of Arnold.
Arnold was laid out and platted in 1883 in anticipation that the railroad would soon be extended to that point. However, the railroad failed to materialize and Arnold grew slowly until the railroad finally arrived in 1912.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Arnold, cut from the printed page as they were published.
In 1884 George T. Bailey came with his family to Custer county and located on a home.stead seven miles distant from the present village of Arnold. Here he still maintains his residence and here he has recently erected one of the best farm houses on the Arnold edge of the East Table. He is the owner of 320 acres of good land and has accumulated
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ham owns several properties that he has under rental, and he is also the owner of twentytwo acres of land and a substantial business building in the town of Arnold, where also, as mentioned above, he conducts a cream station, in which town he is an influential citizen in many ways.
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 Survey
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2005NEMap-doton-ArnoldEvery edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Arnold. 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 Arnold.
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Nobody well known was born in Arnold itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
The Arnold post office opened in 1877, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
One place: the Finch Memorial Library (listed 2015).
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 Wikimedia Commons (8), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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.
