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Stamps is a city in Lafayette County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 1,693 at the 2010 census, down from 2,131 at the 2000 census.

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History

A post office has been in operation in Stamps since 1887. The community has the name of the local Stamps family. Stamps was the shop headquarters for the former Louisiana and Arkansas Railway until the relocation in the early 1920s to Minden in Webster Parish in northern Louisiana.

Stamps has been noted on lists of unusual place names. An early postmaster quipped that Stamps was “the only town in the U.S. that stamps Stamps on stamps”.

• Stamps Ice & Fuel Company and a boxcar of the Louisiana and Arkansas Railway, c. 1904

• Stamps Fire Department

• Bodcaw Bank in Stamps

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Geography

Stamps is in northeastern Lafayette County in southwestern Arkansas. U.S. Route 82 passes through the northern side of the city, leading west 5 miles (8 km) to Lewisville, the county seat, and east 3 miles (5 km) to Buckner. Arkansas Highway 53 has its northern terminus at US 82 and leads south through the center of Stamps 27 miles (43 km) to the state line near Springhill, Louisiana.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 3.1 square miles (8.1 km), of which 3.1 square miles (7.9 km) are land and 0.1 square miles (0.3 km), or 3.19%, are water. Lake June lies within the southern part of the city limits.

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