{{about|the unincorporated community|the historic site|Arkansas Post}} {{Use American English|date=March 2017}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2017}} {{Infobox settlement | official_name = Arkansas Post, Arkansas | settlement_type = Unincorporated community | image_skyline = BAYOUS AROUND ARKANSAS POST.jpg | image_caption = Bayous around Arkansas Post | pushpin_map_caption = Location in Arkansas | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_type1 = State | subdivision_type2 = County | subdivision_name = {{flag|United States}} | subdivision_name1 = {{flag|Arkansas}} | subdivision_name2 = Arkansas | subdivision_type3 = Township | subdivision_name3 = Arkansas | established_title = Founded | established_date = {{start date and age|1831|12|27|p=1|br=1}}<!-- Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971. NARA Microfilm Publication, M841, 145 rolls. Records of the Post Office Department, Record Group Number 28. Washington, D.C.: National Archives. --> | named_for = Arkansas Post | timezone = CST | utc_offset = −06:00 | timezone_DST = CDT | utc_offset_DST = −05:00 | unit_pref = US | elevation_ft = 177 | elevation_footnotes = <ref name=gnis/> | pushpin_map = Arkansas | pushpin_relief = yes | pushpin_label_position = left | pushpin_label = Arkansas Post | coordinates = {{coord|34|01|25|N|91|20|37|W|region:US-AR_type:city|display=inline,title}} | postal_code_type = | postal_code = | area_code = | blank_name = GNIS feature ID | blank_info = 66948<ref name=gnis>{{GNIS|66948}}</ref> | blank2_name = Highways | blank2_info = 20px Highway 169 | blank3_name = Major airport | blank3_info = Clinton National Airport (LIT) | footnotes = }} '''Arkansas Post''' is an unincorporated community located along the north side of the Arkansas River in Arkansas County, Arkansas.<ref name=gnis/> It is home to the Arkansas Post National Memorial.
==History== In 1805 the U.S. government established a store at the location, but was closed in 1810, due to competition from private merchants.<ref>Morris, Wayne. “Traders and Factories on the Arkansas Frontier, 1805-1822.” ''The Arkansas Historical Quarterly'', vol. 28, no. 1, 1969, pp. 28–48. [https://doi.org/10.2307/40030689 JSTOR website] Retrieved 11 Jan. 2023.</ref> Nathaniel Pryor,<ref>“Captain Nathaniel Pryor.” ''The American Historical Review'', vol. 24, no. 2, 1919, pp. 253–65. [https://doi.org/10.2307/1835166 JSTOR website] Retrieved 11 Jan. 2023.</ref> who participated in the Lewis and Clark expedition, and Samuel B. Richards of Natchez established a store at the location after the War of 1812.<ref>Grant Foreman. (1926). ''Pioneer days in the early Southwest''. Cleveland, Ohio: Arthur H. Clark Company. p. 76. [https://archive.org/stream/pioneerdaysinear00ilfore/pioneerdaysinear00ilfore_djvu.txt Internet Archive website] Retrieved 11 January 2023.</ref> The present-day unincorporated community of Arkansas Post was founded on December 27, 1831, with the establishment of the first U.S. post office in the Arkansas Territory.<ref>{{Citation|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|title=Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971. NARA Microfilm Publication, M841, 145 rolls. Records of the Post Office Department, Record Group Number 28|publisher=National Archives|place=Washington, D.C.}}</ref>
==Infrastructure== Highway 169 terminates at Arkansas Post.<ref>{{Cite map |publisher = DeLorme |title = Arkansas Atlas and Gazetteer |edition = Second |section = 5 }}</ref>
==Notable residents== * Antoine Barraqué, French Indian trader * Saracen, Quapaw chief
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==Further reading== * {{cite book|last=Hempstead|first=Fay|title=A Pictorial History of Arkansas: From Earliest Times to the Year 1890|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OFD_49lddgAC&pg=PA827|year=1890|publisher=Southern Historical Press|page=827|isbn=9780893080747}}
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