BlockVanished settlements of Independence County, Arkansas
The Geographic Names Information System records 10 places in Independence County, Arkansas that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
10A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Akron | on Mud Creek, Newark quadrangle | 2.5 miles north of Newark | 14 sheets, 1935 to 1986 | |
| Alvis | Sandtown quadrangle | 5.0 miles south-west of Cushman | 18 sheets, 1890 to 1989 | |
| Blowing Cave | on Cave Creek, Batesville quadrangle | 1.7 miles south of Meadow Heights | 20 sheets, 1890 to 1989 | |
| Denieville | near Grooms Hollow, Batesville quadrangle | 0.1 miles north of Simmons | 20 sheets, 1890 to 1989 | |
| Departe | on Dog Lick Branch, Huff quadrangle | 2.0 miles south-east of Thida | 15 sheets, 1890 to 1986 | |
| Edmonson | near Clark Hill, Mount Pleasant quadrangle | 1.7 miles south-west of Collietown | 19 sheets, 1890 to 1989 | |
| Limeville | on Rocky Branch, Bethesda quadrangle | 1.0 miles south-west of Earnheart | 18 sheets, 1890 to 1989 | |
| Lockheart | on Little Creek, Strawberry quadrangle | 1.8 miles south of Dowdy | 11 sheets, 1932 to 1986 | |
| Phosphate | near Dave Green Hollow, Bethesda quadrangle | 0.6 miles north-west of Collietown | 18 sheets, 1890 to 1989 | |
| Underwood | Newark quadrangle | 1.2 miles east of Paroquet | 14 sheets, 1935 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.