BlockVanished settlements of Newton County, Arkansas
The Geographic Names Information System records 6 places in Newton County, Arkansas that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
6A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allfriend | near McCullough Hollow, Osage SW quadrangle | 2.2 miles south of George | 15 sheets, 1904 to 1985 | |
| Holt | on Campbell Creek, Lurton quadrangle | 3.8 miles south-west of Pleasant Hill | 15 sheets, 1933 to 1992 | |
| Little Buffalo | near Stringtown Hollow, Jasper quadrangle | 1.2 miles north-west of Pruitt | 13 sheets, 1904 to 1985 | |
| Plumlee | on Bear Creek, Ponca quadrangle | 2.2 miles south-east of Mount Sherman | 14 sheets, 1904 to 1985 | |
| Sulphur Spring | near Sulphur Mountain, Hasty quadrangle | 3.6 miles west of Dogpatch | 13 sheets, 1904 to 1985 | |
| Wells Creek | on Bat House Branch, Hasty quadrangle | 2.0 miles south-east of Hasty | 13 sheets, 1904 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.