# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0001227500
**File Stem:** 0001193125-25-183459
**Filing Date:** 2025-8
**Character Count:** 2199
**Document Hash:** 96abd1c662fb9bde131e279ec4246236
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001193125-25-183459.hdr.sgml**: 20250919

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001193125-25-183459

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: CORRESP

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 1

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20250819

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** EQUITY BANCSHARES INC
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0001227500
- **STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:** STATE COMMERCIAL BANKS [6022]
- **ORGANIZATION NAME:** 02 Finance
- **EIN:** 000000000
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** KS
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 1231

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** CORRESP

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 7701 E. KELLOGG DRIVE, SUITE 300
- **CITY:** WICHITA
- **STATE:** KS
- **ZIP:** 67207
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 316-612-6000

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 7701 E. KELLOGG DRIVE, SUITE 300
- **CITY:** WICHITA
- **STATE:** KS
- **ZIP:** 67207

**EQUITY BANCSHARES, INC.** 

7701 East Kellogg Drive, Suite 300

Wichita, Kansas 67207

August 19, 2025

**<u>VIA EDGAR</u>**

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Division of Corporation Finance

100 F Street, N.E.

Washington, D.C. 20549

Attn: Aisha Adegbuyi

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|:---|:---|
| **Re:** | **Equity Bancshares, Inc.** |
|  | **Registration Statement on Form S-4** |
|  | **Filed August 11, 2025** |
|  | **File No. 333-289492** |

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Ladies and Gentlemen:

Pursuant to Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, Equity Bancshares, Inc. hereby respectfully requests that the effective date of the above referenced Registration Statement on Form S-4 be accelerated to 12:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on August 21, 2025, or as soon as practicable thereafter.

Please contact Michael G. Keeley of Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP at (214) 855-3906 with any questions you may have regarding this request. In addition, please notify Mr. Keeley by telephone when this request for acceleration has been granted.

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| | |
|:---|:---|
| Respectfully, | Respectfully, |
| **EQUITY BANCSHARES, INC.** | **EQUITY BANCSHARES, INC.** |
| By: | /s/ Chris M. Navratil |
| Name: | Chris M. Navratil |
| Title: | Executive Vice President and |
|  | Chief Financial Officer |

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cc: Michael G. Keeley, Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP