BlockVanished settlements of Van Buren County, Arkansas
The Geographic Names Information System records 22 places in Van Buren County, Arkansas that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
22A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Archey | near Walnut Knob, Botkinburg quadrangle | 2.9 miles north-east of Old Botkinburg | 16 sheets, 1892 to 1992 | |
| Banner | near Story Mountain, Clinton quadrangle | 1.6 miles west of Pee Dee | 15 sheets, 1892 to 1992 | |
| Bloomington | on Choctaw Creek, Fairfield Bay quadrangle | 1.3 miles south-east of Choctaw Pines | 16 sheets, 1892 to 1992 | |
| Butter Creek | near Wolf Pen Hollow, Scotland quadrangle | 1.4 miles north of Walnut Grove | 15 sheets, 1892 to 1992 | |
| Buzzard Roost | on Bradley Branch, Scotland quadrangle | 2.7 miles west of Walnut Grove | 15 sheets, 1892 to 1992 | |
| Chalk | on Wild Goose Branch, Greers Ferry quadrangle | 4.0 miles north-west of Fairfield Bay | 15 sheets, 1892 to 1992 | |
| East Mountain | near Lunsford Point, Bee Branch quadrangle | 1.7 miles north of Green Tree | 12 sheets, 1956 to 1992 | |
| Edge | on Trimble Creek, Rex quadrangle | 2.2 miles south of Gravel Hill | 16 sheets, 1892 to 1992 | |
| Gladys | on Opossum Walk Creek, Scotland quadrangle | 2.8 miles south of Scotland | 15 sheets, 1892 to 1992 | |
| Gridley | near Egger Mountain, Rex quadrangle | 2.9 miles south-east of Gravel Hill | 16 sheets, 1892 to 1992 | |
| Kinderhook | near Johnson Hollow, Parma quadrangle | 4.6 miles south-west of Shirley | 16 sheets, 1892 to 1992 | |
| Koones Gulf | near Hatley Mountain, Lost Corner quadrangle | 3.2 miles south-west of Austin | 21 sheets, 1879 to 1992 | |
| Latham | near Sis Hollow, Rex quadrangle | 2.5 miles north of Rex | 16 sheets, 1892 to 1992 | |
| Liberty Springs | on Hill Creek, Cleveland quadrangle | 4.6 miles north-west of Austin | 16 sheets, 1892 to 1992 | |
| Oak Flat | near Bear Hollow, Leslie quadrangle | 1.7 miles south-east of Dennard | 15 sheets, 1892 to 1992 | |
| Old Liberty | on Beardy Branch, Cleveland quadrangle | 2.4 miles east of Gravel Hill | 16 sheets, 1892 to 1992 | |
| Pine Mountain | on Scotland Branch, Scotland quadrangle | 1.2 miles west of Scotland | 15 sheets, 1892 to 1992 | |
| Poe | on Ship Branch, Shirley quadrangle | 2.9 miles west of Shirley | 17 sheets, 1892 to 1992 | |
| Racket Ridge | near Gulf Mountain, Rex quadrangle | 2.3 miles south-east of Scotland | 16 sheets, 1892 to 1992 | |
| Settlement | near Hump Hollow, Shirley quadrangle | 0.8 miles north of Shirley | 17 sheets, 1892 to 1992 | |
| Shake Rag | on Bradley Branch, Clinton quadrangle | 2.1 miles north-east of Clinton | 15 sheets, 1892 to 1992 | |
| Williams Gulf | near Dry Land Hollow, Rex quadrangle | 3.8 miles north-west of Rex | 16 sheets, 1892 to 1992 |
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.