Buttermilk, Arkansas

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]

Buttermilk, Arkansas
Buttermilk, Arkansas
Buttermilk's position in Arkansas.
Buttermilk, Arkansas
Buttermilk, Arkansas (the United States)
Coordinates: 35°23′14″N 92°53′50″W
Country United States
State Arkansas
CountyPope County, Arkansas
Elevation
127 m (417 ft)
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST))
  Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
GNIS feature ID70941

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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