The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusCash is a city in western Craighead County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 280 at the 2020 census. Cash's population was of mostly white with 99.8% and partial Puerto Rican ethnicity. It is included in the Jonesboro, Arkansas Metropolitan Statistical Area. The name "Cash" is a corruption of the Cache River.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 342 to 280 (-18%). Half of its homes were built before 1975.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Cash yet — the old photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Intro from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Population and housing: U.S. Census Bureau.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Cash’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Cash, decade by decade
2000
LOCBare and apparently burned trees near the tiny town of Cash…2020
LOCGravel road leading to a distant grain elevator near the ti…2020
LOCFall scene near a small cypress pond near the tiny town of …2020
LOCRusted water containers near the tiny town of Cash (a versi…2020
LOCLarge, but abandoned, grain-elevator complex near the tiny …2020
LOCView down rural railroad tracks near the tiny town of Cash …2020Nothing in Cash is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Cash has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Caraway, US Sen. Hattie, Gravesite in Jonesboro, 11.1 miles away.
Cash and the nearest listed places
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Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.
From the Library of Congress (6). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.