Talk:Arkansas Post, Arkansas

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Incorporation and dissolution

In the first sentence of the article we are told that this is a settlement without an associated local government (i.e. unincorporated). But then we get this just dropped in at the end of the article:

"Arkansas Post was incorporated as a town in 1836."

If it was incoporated and no longer exists are a town government...then when was it unincorporated? When did it lose it's designation as a local government? --Criticalthinker (talk) 04:15, 30 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Criticalthinker: There have been cases of declining municipalities disincorporating for various reasons (also Buckingham, Texas is an odd case where the town was surrounded by a much bigger city). I would guess county or state archives would have more info for that. Maybe university librarians could help find a newspaper article about this? As for whether people live in Arkansas Post today, I'm wondering if there's a reference saying there are zero residents anywhere close to where it was. I would like to see an outline of the incorporated town so I can see if any houses or commercial properties (which get taxed) are in it today. WhisperToMe (talk) 17:47, 2 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I've contacted state sources about this and read the constitution. If a city doesn't report into the state for five years or some such timeframe, they lose their charter. That is what seems to have happened to Arkansas Post, and it appears to have happened sometimes after 1890. When, exactly, I haven't been given a definitive answer. In any case, it doesn't make any sense to include school information for a deserted town. --Criticalthinker (talk) 05:53, 3 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Criticalthinker: Indeed there are places like Indianola, Texas where the community is considered completely deserted. What I noticed is that this town isn't on the recent highway map for Arkansas County even though it was indicated in a 1950s map. I wonder if the community was considered abandoned in the latter half of the 20th century? In that case, I have written about schools but in the past tense, such as for Attu Island in Alaska, where there was a school for kids until Japanese soldiers kidnapped the town (I mentioned it was technically in a current school district but just as a technicality) WhisperToMe (talk) 05:52, 4 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Example is that Varner in Lincoln County never incorporated but a population was recorded for it in 1952 WhisperToMe (talk) 01:51, 5 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Why was this fact removed? It's noteworthy that this community once had a local government. Criticalthinker (talk) 05:14, 28 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]