BlockVanished settlements of Perry County, Arkansas
The Geographic Names Information System records 8 places in Perry County, Arkansas that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
8A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bellevue | Martindale quadrangle | 2.5 miles north of Oak Grove | 16 sheets, 1890 to 1985 | |
| Camp Pershing | on Narrow Creek, Thornburg quadrangle | 2.2 miles east of Williams Junction | 15 sheets, 1890 to 1985 | |
| Copperas Gap | on White Branch, Houston quadrangle | 2.4 miles south-east of Houston | 17 sheets, 1892 to 1992 | |
| Dixie | Gleason quadrangle | 1.2 miles north-west of New Dixie | 17 sheets, 1892 to 1992 | |
| Kenney | on Kenney Mountain, Fourche quadrangle | 1.2 miles north of Fourche | 16 sheets, 1890 to 1985 | |
| Moab | on Harris Creek, Houston quadrangle | 1.2 miles north-west of Sweet Home | 17 sheets, 1892 to 1992 | |
| Orchard | Martindale quadrangle | 2.7 miles north of Pleasant Valley | 16 sheets, 1890 to 1985 | |
| Rankin | near Holmes Hollow, Martindale quadrangle | 0.9 miles north-east of Pleasant Valley | 16 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.