Buttermilk, Arkansas

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Buttermilk, Arkansas
Unincorporated community
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Buttermilk, Arkansas
Buttermilk's position in Arkansas.
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Buttermilk, Arkansas
Buttermilk, Arkansas (the United States)
Coordinates: 35°23′14″N92°53′50″W / 35.38722°N 92.89722°W / 35.38722; -92.89722
Country Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States
State Flag of Arkansas.svg Arkansas
County Pope County, Arkansas
Elevation
127 m (417 ft)
Time zone UTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT)
GNIS feature ID70941

Buttermilk is an unincorporated community in Pope County, Arkansas, United States. [1] The community's name was derived from an observer who saw the whitewash run off the Cumberland Presbyterian Church during a rain storm in 1840 and commented that it looked like buttermilk. [2]

References

  1. ↑ "Feature Detail Report for: Buttermilk, Arkansas." USGS. Profile. Retrieved June 23, 2010.
  2. ↑ Deane, Ernie (1986). Arkansas Place Names. Branson, Missouri: The Ozarks Mountaineer. p. 94.


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