[3] The Panchubari mosque in Jaygirpara was established by a silk businessman known as Bhadu Pramanik and is bounded on the north by the huge Angra Beel and on the south by the river Malch.

[4] A Sufi pir popularly known as Kalachand Shah was based in this area and he is buried in a mazar (mausoleum) in Hathkanpara Bazar, Jainagar Union.

[5] In the 19th century, a Sufi murshid known as Hazrat Shah Shafi Qazi Rafiuddin bin Kafiluddin al-Chishti (1882–1996) of Dhardiyar, Kushtia arrived to Durgapur where many murids gave bay'ah to him.

During the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971, a battle took place between the Bengali freedom fighters and the Pakistan Army at the village of Kabasmul on the border between Durgapur and Paba upazilas.

Durgapur Thana was upgraded to upazila (sub-district) in 1984 as part of the President of Bangladesh Hussain Muhammad Ershad's decentralisation programme.