Stamps (Arkansas)

Lafayette County

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Stamps is a city in Lafayette County of the U.S. state of Arkansas. In 2010 there were about 1,700 people in the city.

Stamps is part of the socio-economic region Ark- La - Tex, which has arisen between the states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas.

History

The city has long hosted the stopover of the St. Louis & South Western Railway, whose route was defeated in 1882 by the city. In 1887 the first post office was opened. In the same year the town was officially incorporated in the County and the State. How many cities in this region also owes stamps his first economic boom of the timber industry. For some time the city had then the largest sawmill in southern Arkansas '. One of the largest companies of this sector in the city at that time was the Bodcaw Lumber Company, which was active in the city from 1889 to 1931. Started small, the company was added to one of the three large and added two more sawmills in stamps soon. It belonged to William Buchanan, the then-largest producer of yellow spruce world. Furthermore, it was obtained at the time on three fields of the village oil.

With the growth of the wood processing companies and the city grew and its connection to other cities. So finished lumber was transported from stamps from almost all states of the United States. The preliminary peaked the local industry during the First World War, when much wood was needed mainly for shipbuilding. This high demand has led to the complete deforestation of vast stands of trees in the region. When these were exhausted, the company closed their plants and moved in the 1920s and 1930s in other regions.

Demography

The census counted 2000 2131 inhabitants, distributed among 830 households and 541 families. The population density corresponded to 268 people per square kilometer. 54.5 % of the population were black, 44.3 % white, 0.6 % Hispanic or Latino, 0.5% Native American, 0.1 % Asian and less than 0.1 % Pacific Islander. 0.6 % of the population had two or more Ethinzitäten. The average age was 37 years, the per capita income was more than 11,400 U.S. dollars, which more than a quarter of the population lived below the poverty line.

Until the 2010 census, the population dropped to 1693rd

Personalities

Maya Angelou, writer and nationally significant human rights activist, spent much of her childhood in Stamps.