BlockVanished settlements of Baxter County, Arkansas
The Geographic Names Information System records 13 places in Baxter County, Arkansas that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
13A place leaves this list only by being unmade: the post office closes, the mine works out, the road moves. The name stays in the federal gazetteer, flagged historical, and the topographic sheets that recorded it stay in the archive.
| Where in the county | Place | Where it stood | Nearest place today | Mapped |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bennetts | on Little Creek, Gamaliel quadrangle | 2.4 miles west of Gamaliel | 18 sheets, 1890 to 1985 | |
| Berry | near Schinette Hollow, Norfork Dam South quadrangle | 0.6 miles north-west of Old Joe | 19 sheets, 1890 to 1985 | |
| Casteel | near Grassy Hollow, Calico Rock quadrangle | 2.9 miles north of Culp | 19 sheets, 1890 to 1985 | |
| Chastain | by White Bluff, Norfork quadrangle | 0.8 miles south of Herron | 17 sheets, 1890 to 1985 | |
| Conville | on Jenkins Creek, Mountain Home West quadrangle | 1.9 miles south-east of Buford | 18 sheets, 1890 to 1985 | |
| Covey | on Barren Fork, Norfork Dam North quadrangle | 0.8 miles south of Rodney | 18 sheets, 1890 to 1985 | |
| Custer | on Walker Branch, Gamaliel quadrangle | 2.6 miles south of Henderson | 18 sheets, 1890 to 1985 | |
| Hand | on Barren Fork, Norfork Dam North quadrangle | 1.2 miles north-west of Timber Lake Manor | 18 sheets, 1890 to 1985 | |
| Independence | on Monkey Run Creek, Mountain Home West quadrangle | 0.7 miles north-east of Whiteville | 18 sheets, 1890 to 1985 | |
| Jonesdale | near Birmingham Hollow, Norfork SE quadrangle | 4.8 miles south-west of Big Flat | 18 sheets, 1890 to 1985 | |
| Laytonville | near Fletcher Mountain, Buffalo City quadrangle | 2.5 miles north of Buford | 18 sheets, 1890 to 1985 | |
| Spencer | on Dry Creek, Norfork Dam North quadrangle | 1.3 miles south-west of Salesville | 18 sheets, 1890 to 1985 | |
| Wake | near Wolf Knob, Norfork Dam North quadrangle | 0.8 miles north-west of Diamond Bay | 18 sheets, 1890 to 1985 |
Provenance
- Which settlements are gone. Geographic Names Information System, United States Geological Survey. A place is listed here when the federal gazetteer flags its record historical; that is the government's judgement, not this site's.
- Where each one stood. The gazetteer's own coordinates, and the nearest named landform and quadrangle from the same file.
- Distance and direction to the nearest surviving place. Computed here from the gazetteer coordinates of both places, straight line, to the nearest tenth of a mile.
- Sheets. USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection. The count is of sheets covering the site, so it describes how often the AREA was surveyed and not how long the settlement lasted.