BlockVanished settlements of Poinsett County, Arkansas
The Geographic Names Information System records 8 places in Poinsett 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arthur | Monterey quadrangle | 1.5 miles north of Stewart | 13 sheets, 1940 to 1986 | |
| Brainerd | Otwell quadrangle | 3.4 miles south-west of McDaniel | 12 sheets, 1939 to 1986 | |
| Buffalolick | Greenfield quadrangle | 1.7 miles south-west of Gaulett | 9 sheets, 1940 to 1986 | |
| Carr | Trumann quadrangle | 0.6 miles south-east of Dobell | 9 sheets, 1940 to 1986 | |
| Cypress | on Iron Mines Creek, Marked Tree quadrangle | 1.7 miles west of Cassidy | 11 sheets, 1941 to 1986 | |
| Engman | McCormick quadrangle | 1.2 miles north-east of Old Weona | 9 sheets, 1940 to 1986 | |
| Merced | Trumann quadrangle | 1.4 miles north-west of Stacy | 9 sheets, 1940 to 1986 | |
| Ruffin | Trumann quadrangle | 0.5 miles north of Stacy | 9 sheets, 1940 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.