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Walton Equitable Bank, Walton, KY: failed July 3, 1936

Walton Equitable Bank in Walton, Kentucky, failed on July 3, 1936. It held $235,000 in deposits.

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The FDIC's record

Closed
July 3, 1936
Type
Failure
How it was resolved
Purchase and assumption: another bank took over the deposits
Total deposits
$235,000
Charter
State nonmember bank (FDIC)
Insurance fund
FDIC

The FDIC record

Other bank failures in Kentucky, 1934 to 1938

BankCityClosedAssetsDepositsEstimated costAcquirer
Farmers State Bank of LondonLondonDecember 21, 1938$355,000$287,000
Bank of LockportLockportOctober 11, 1938$68,000$51,000
Bank of MilburnMilburnJuly 11, 1938$79,000$62,000
Central Savings BankNewportJune 22, 1938$1.4 million
Worthville Deposit BankWorthvilleJanuary 11, 1938$141,000$116,000
Carter County Commercial BankOlive HillOctober 30, 1937$139,000$109,000
First State BankBarbourvilleOctober 29, 1937$425,000$391,000
Bank of SturgisSturgisJuly 3, 1937$246,000$213,000

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Read from the FDIC's failures data (BankFind), last updated 2026-10-23. Assets and deposits are as of the last report before failure; the estimated cost is the FDIC's latest estimate of the loss to its insurance fund and changes as the receivership winds down. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0.