Editing Stamps, Arkansas (section)

==History==
A post office has been in operation in Stamps since 1887.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=AR&county=Lafayette&searchtext=&pagenum=2 | title=Lafayette County | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | access-date=February 2, 2015}}</ref> The community has the name of the local Stamps family.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Moyer |first1=Armond |last2=Moyer |first2=Winifred |title=The origins of unusual place-names |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89058322223;view=1up;seq=130 |year=1958 |publisher=Keystone Pub. Associates |page=126}}</ref> Stamps was the shop headquarters for the former [[Louisiana and Arkansas Railway]] until the relocation in the early 1920s to [[Minden, Louisiana|Minden]] in [[Webster Parish, Louisiana|Webster Parish]] in northern  [[Louisiana]].<ref>"Connell Fort Dies Saturday Night at His Residence Here: Was Great Civic Worker and Builder of This town", ''Webster Signal-Tribune'', March 5, 1937, pp. 1, 6</ref>

Stamps has been noted on lists of [[Place names considered unusual|unusual place names]].<ref name="Times">{{cite news | url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-10-13-vw-15646-story.html | title=Arkansas' Towns of Funny Names: There's Evening Shade, Greasy Corner, Stump City, Hope | newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] | date=October 13, 1985 | access-date=July 14, 2014 | author=Hillinger, Charles}}</ref> An early postmaster quipped that Stamps was "the only town in the U.S. that stamps Stamps on stamps".<ref name="Times" />