Boston is an unincorporated community in the Boston Mountains of southeastern Madison County, Arkansas, United States. [1] The community is located on Arkansas Highway 16 between Pettigrew to the southwest and Red Star to the northeast. [2] The community is on a high ridge at an elevation of 2,329 feet (710 m). [1] The location is at the headwaters of four streams: Kings River to the northeast, War Eagle Creek to the northwest, the White River to the east and southwest and Little Mulberry Creek (a tributary to the Mulberry River) to the southeast. [2]
The Boston Chapel and cemetery lie about three-quarters of a mile to the south of Boston along a county road. The Boston Lookout Tower ( 35°48′05″N93°35′59″W / 35.80139°N 93.59972°W at elevation: 2,454 feet (748 m)) [3] is about two miles south of Boston along the same county road. [4]
The Ozarks, also known as the Ozark Mountains, Ozark Highlands or Ozark Plateau, is a physiographic region in the U.S. states of Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma and the extreme southeastern corner of Kansas. The Ozarks cover a significant portion of northern Arkansas and most of the southern half of Missouri, extending from Interstate 40 in central Arkansas to Interstate 70 in central Missouri.
The Boston Mountains is a Level III ecoregion designated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the U.S. states of Arkansas and Oklahoma. Part of the Ozarks, the Boston Mountains are a deeply dissected plateau. The ecoregion is steeper than the adjacent Springfield Plateau to the north, and bordered on the south by the Arkansas Valley. The Oklahoma portion of the range is locally referred to as the Cookson Hills. There are several theories of how the mountains were named, though apparently none are related to the Massachusetts city.
Marys River is a 40-mile (64 km) tributary of the Willamette River in the U.S. state of Oregon. From its source at the confluence of its east and west forks near Summit, it flows generally southeast from the Central Oregon Coast Range to Corvallis.
Gillian Settlement is an unincorporated community in Johnson County, Arkansas, United States.
Nogo is a small unincorporated community in Smyrna Township, Pope County, Arkansas, United States. It is part of the Russellville Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Cataula is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Harris County, Georgia, United States.
The Mulberry River is a 70-mile-long (110 km) tributary of the Arkansas River in northwestern Arkansas in the United States. Via the Arkansas River, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River. It has been designated a National Wild and Scenic River. The drainage basin of the Mulberry River has an area of 373 square miles (970 km2) and the annual average mean flow of the river near its mouth is 557 cubic feet per second.
Powell Mountain is a mountain ridge of the Ridge-and-valley Appalachians of the Appalachian Mountains. It is a long and narrow ridge, running northeast to southwest, from about Norton, Virginia, to near Tazewell, Tennessee. It separates the Clinch River basin and the Powell River basin of Powell Valley. It was named for an 18th-century explorer.
Sweetwater Creek is a stream in the Texas Panhandle and western Oklahoma. It is a tributary to the North Fork of the Red River.
Ford is an unincorporated community in Stevens County, Washington, United States. It is on Washington State Route 231 10.5 miles (16.9 km) south-southwest of Springdale. Ford has a post office with ZIP code 99013. Ford has a nondenominational community church. A little-known historical monument commemorating the Tshimakain Mission stands just outside of the main town.
Alabam is an unincorporated community in Madison County, Arkansas, United States. The community is located on Arkansas Highway 127, approximately six miles northeast of Huntsville. The community of Old Alabam is about one mile south at the intersection of Highway 127 and U.S. Route 412. Alabam is on a broad ridge between War Eagle Creek to the southwest and the Kings River to the northeast.
Hubbell is an unincorporated community in the southwestern corner of Jefferson Township, Owen County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. It lies near the intersection of County Road 750 South and Indiana Highway 157, which is a community nearly twenty miles southwest of the city of Spencer, the county seat. Its elevation is 528 feet, and it is located at 39°10′59″N87°0′44″W. This community is also known as Hubbells Station.
Health is an unincorporated community in Madison County, Arkansas, United States. The community is located on a high ridge of the Boston Mountains in the southwestern corner of Madison County at an elevation of 2,411 feet (735 m).
Bear Creek is a stream in Dade and Polk counties in the Ozarks of southwest Missouri. It is a tributary to the Sac River.
Pierson Creek or Pearson Creek is a stream in southeastern Greene County in the Ozarks of southwest Missouri. The stream is a tributary of the James River.
War Eagle Creek is a stream in Benton, Washington and Madison counties of northwest Arkansas, United States, that is a tributary of the White River.
Piney Creek is a stream in southern Carroll County of the U.S. state of Arkansas. It is a tributary to the Kings River.
Currant Creek is a stream in eastern Juab County and southern Utah County in northern Utah, United States.
The Pennsylvania State Game Lands Number 26 are Pennsylvania State Game Lands in Bedford, Blair, Cambria, and Somerset Counties in Pennsylvania in the United States providing hunting, bird watching, equestrian, snowmobiling, and other activities.
Hurricane Creek is a tributary to the Big Piney Creek, a river in Ozark-St. Francis National Forest in the state of Arkansas, which is a tributary of the Arkansas River and which is, in turn, part of the Mississippi River System. It is managed by the United States Forest Service and categorized as one of the Wild and Scenic Rivers of the United States.
35°50′26″N93°36′05″W / 35.84056°N 93.60139°W