BlockVanished settlements of Craighead County, Arkansas
The Geographic Names Information System records 14 places in Craighead County, Arkansas that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
14A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cane Island | on Cane Island, Lake City quadrangle | 1.7 miles south-east of Poplar Ridge | 10 sheets, 1941 to 1986 | |
| Credit | Grubbs quadrangle | 0.7 miles south of Chilson | 10 sheets, 1935 to 1986 | |
| Doss | Jonesboro quadrangle | 0.7 miles south-west of Nettleton | 11 sheets, 1939 to 1986 | |
| Greensboro | Brookland quadrangle | 2.6 miles east of Goobertown | 10 sheets, 1939 to 1986 | |
| March | on Rogers Bayou, Bono quadrangle | 1.1 miles north-west of Oak Ridge | 11 sheets, 1935 to 1986 | |
| Maysville | Dixie quadrangle | 1.8 miles east of Dixie | 10 sheets, 1941 to 1986 | |
| Obear | Otwell quadrangle | 0.8 miles north-east of Otwell | 12 sheets, 1939 to 1986 | |
| Pekin | Needham quadrangle | 0.9 miles east of Bowman | 10 sheets, 1939 to 1986 | |
| Scarb | on Gunner Slough, Herman quadrangle | 1.3 miles north-east of Nemo | 11 sheets, 1935 to 1986 | |
| Shaw | Rivervale quadrangle | 1.1 miles north-east of Degelow | 11 sheets, 1941 to 1986 | |
| Smithville | Brookland quadrangle | 0.0 miles north of Aetna | 10 sheets, 1939 to 1986 | |
| Waco | Rivervale quadrangle | 0.6 miles south-west of Lepanto Junction | 11 sheets, 1941 to 1986 | |
| Webbs Mill | on Bridger Creek, Needham quadrangle | 1.0 miles west of Phillips | 10 sheets, 1939 to 1986 | |
| Whitburg | on Murray Creek, Needham quadrangle | 1.2 miles north-west of Farrville | 10 sheets, 1939 to 1986 |
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.