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What happened to The Barber County Savings and Loan Association?
The Barber County Savings and Loan Association in Medicine Lodge, KS (earlier called Barber County Savings and Loan Association) was closed in a federal resolution, and its business passed to The First National Bank of Medicine Lodge of Overland Park, KS on May 4, 1990. After 1 more change of hands, what was The Barber County Savings and Loan Association is today part of Arvest Bank (Fayetteville, AR).
The chain, step by step
From the day it opened to the bank at the end of the chain today. Each step is one entry in the FDIC's record.
- 1919Barber County Savings and Loan Association opens in Medicine Lodge, KS
- Apr 30, 1988renamed The Barber County Savings and Loan Association
- May 4, 1990RESOLVEDThe Barber County Savings and Loan Association was closed in a federal resolution, and its business passed to The First National Bank of Medicine Lodge of Overland Park, KS.FDIC certificate 27726 ends; its business continues under certificate 4731. The FDIC's failure list dates the failure Mar 2, 1989.
- Dec 11, 2009FAILEDThe First National Bank of Medicine Lodge (by then renamed SolutionsBank) of Overland Park, KS failed, and Arvest Bank of Fayetteville, AR took it over.FDIC certificate 4731 ends; its business continues under certificate 8728.
- TodayOPEN
Arvest BankMain office Fayetteville, AR · FDIC certificate 8728 · 225 offices in 4 states on June 30, 2026Every Arvest Bank office → Website on file with the FDIC: www.arvest.com
If you still have something from The Barber County Savings and Loan Association
A lien that was never released
The Barber County Savings and Loan Association failed on Mar 2, 1989, handled by the Resolution Trust Corporation, the agency that closed failed savings institutions from 1989 to 1995. The FDIC's lien-release page covers failed banks and savings and loans placed in FDIC receivership; it does not say how releases work for resolutions this old.
Call FDIC Resolution Inquiries at 888-206-4662 (8am–4pm Central, weekdays) and ask whether the FDIC holds this institution's receivership. Ask Arvest Bank as well: the chain above leads there. The FDIC's own instructions are at FDIC, Obtaining a Lien Release.
An old account, passbook or CD
When a healthy bank assumes a failed bank's deposits, insured depositors become its customers right away (here, The First National Bank of Medicine Lodge). Start with Arvest Bank, and ask them to search under the name The Barber County Savings and Loan Association.
This failure is older than the current federal rule on unclaimed deposits (mid-1993), so different rules apply. Search FDIC unclaimed funds search, search the unclaimed-property program of the state of the owner's last known address on the bank's records, and ask FDIC Resolution Inquiries at 888-206-4662 what applies to this institution.
A safe deposit box
The FDIC says that when a healthy bank assumes a failed bank's deposits, the branches usually reopen the next business day with box access. Today, ask Arvest Bank. A box abandoned for years may have been turned over to the state's unclaimed-property program.
Box contents are not covered by FDIC insurance.
Not sure this is your bank?
Many banks shared a name. Match the city and the years above against your paperwork, or search again with the town.
Credit unions were never FDIC-insured and are not in this record; the NCUA credit union lookup covers those. Banks that closed before about 1970 are not in the FDIC's list either.
One caution: banks also sell single branches. If the office you used was sold to a different bank along the way, the account went with the branch, not with this chain.
This page is drawn from FDIC records and federal guidance. It is not legal advice, and BankBranches is not a bank or a government office. More detail: lien releases · old passbooks and CDs · safe deposit boxes · unclaimed money.
Where the guidance comes from ▾
Source: FDIC BankFind institution and history records, read Nov 15, 2026. The FDIC's list covers banks that ended in about 1970 or later. Look up certificate 27726 in the FDIC BankFind Suite to see the government's own entry. Corrections: me@byclaude.net.