17 bank branches across three banks have set a closing date
Seventeen bank branches have a closing date a source actually gives, between now and December 4. They belong to three banks: Great Southern, Simmons and Huntington. Larger closure programs have been announced elsewhere, but without dates attached, which is the whole problem with tracking branch closures.
The seventeen
Great Southern Bank, nine branches. Rogers, Arkansas closes September 25, a date the report gives with the branch address. Eight more follow on October 1: Springfield, Ozark, Nixa, Lee's Summit and Oakville in Missouri, Olathe in Kansas, and Ankeny and Pleasant Hill in Iowa. The company described nine branches across four states, which matches what we hold.
Simmons Bank, six branches in Arkansas, all on December 4. Fort Smith, Hot Springs, Jonesboro, North Little Rock, Pine Bluff and White Hall. The parent company disclosed a larger program of 26 locations in a September 3 filing; six of them are in Arkansas and those are the ones with an address and a date.
Huntington Bank, two in Michigan. Troy and Traverse City, both in November, part of 13 Michigan branches the bank confirmed. The report on them gives the month rather than a day.
What we can't date, and why that matters
Bank of America is closing branches this year and the lists that circulate name roughly twenty locations, from Elk Grove and San Jose in California to Kennesaw, Georgia and Framingham, Massachusetts. We are not putting a date on any of them, because the source those lists trace back to gives none: it says "2026", "later in 2026" and "in the coming months". A closing date is the one thing a reader of this page needs, so an undated branch is not in the count.
That gap is normal for branch closures and it is why they are hard to follow. Banks are required to notify their regulator before closing a branch, but the public-facing announcement is often a sentence in a quarterly update with no schedule attached. Unless a local paper asks, the date surfaces on the door.
The pattern in who tells you when
Look at which banks are on the dated list and which are not. The three that published dates are regional: Great Southern out of Springfield, Missouri, Simmons out of Arkansas, Huntington in Michigan. Each named the branches, and two of them gave the day. The one that did not is the national bank: Bank of America's closures are known to us only through a list with no schedule attached to it.
That is not a claim that anyone is hiding anything. Federal rules require a bank to mail affected customers notice 90 days before a branch closes and to post it at the branch 30 days ahead, so the people who bank there will be told. What does not exist is a public list with dates on it. The practical difference is who else finds out: a regional bank closing in Nixa or Jonesboro is closing where the local paper will ask and print the answer, while no single branch closure at a national bank is large enough to be news anywhere.
What we cannot tell you, and it is the thing that matters most. Whether any of these seventeen is the last branch in its town. A closure is an inconvenience where there are four other banks on the same road, and it is something else entirely where the next branch is a half-hour drive and the customers are elderly or unbanked. We hold the addresses but not the branch density around them, so we are not going to imply either.
Branch closures are usually consolidation rather than distress: deposits move, some staff are redeployed, the bank keeps the customers. The job figures reflect that and cannot be read per branch: Great Southern's records carry a single 66-job figure covering its whole program.
What is left behind is a particular kind of vacancy. A branch is small, purpose-built, usually freestanding with a drive-through and a vault, on a corner chosen for visibility. Those features make it conspicuous when empty and awkward to re-let, which is why a dark branch on a good corner is one of the most noticeable vacancies a suburban street can have.
What we counted, and what we left out
Seventeen branches whose closing date is stated by a source, across five states: Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas, Iowa and Michigan. Every tracked closure for each bank sits on its own page: Great Southern Bank, Simmons Bank and Huntington Bank.
This page was drafted with a count of 45 and that was wrong. Twenty of those were Bank of America branches carrying an end-of-year date our pipeline had filled in where the source gave none, and one was an office relocation rather than a branch. Undated branches are now excluded by design, and the Bank of America program is described above without dates rather than counted.
Bank offices and back-office layoffs are not branches and are not counted. A credit union closing its cannabis banking arm in Albuquerque is a line of business, not a lobby, and is also out.
Records come from company announcements, SEC filings, local news reporting, state WARN notices and federal branch-structure filings. This is a living page: branches join the count when a date is published.
Updated: September 21, 2026 (first published)
Changelog: first published at 17 branches with a stated closing date across 5 states, from the 2026-09-19 edition.
Street names are from our records; house numbers are held for subscribers. The Store Closure Watch file for the week of September 19, 2026 holds 463 records. As of September 21, 2026.