The Wilson Springs Nature Preserve is a 121-acre prairie wetland surrounding the large Wilson Springs and owned by the Northwest Arkansas Land Trust. It is located just west of the Sam’s Club store at the intersection of Garland Avenue and Truckers Drive, and it extends west to Deane Solomon Road. Micro-habitats in the preserve include … More Wilson Springs Nature Preserve
The White River runs along the eastern side of Fayetteville and is approximately 722 miles long, running from its source near the community of Boston in eastern Madison County to its mouth on the Mississippi River. It is the 17th longest river in the United States, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The upper tributaries … More White River
During the 19th century, wells became common across downtown Fayetteville as a source of drinking water as well as to supply water for uses such as livestock, hygiene and fire safety. After the city began pumping water from the West Fork of the White River to the city’s first water treatment plant on Mount Sequoyah in the early 20th century, the … More Wells
The name Town Creek was applied to a former creek that drains a portion of central Fayetteville, including the low-lying part of present-day Spring Street from East Avenue west and a second tributary running mostly underground today from the U.S. post office on St. Charles Avenue west beneath a series of buildings. It briefly hits … More Town Creek
The source of Town Branch is near the intersection of Martin Luther King Boulevard and Interstate 49. The branch runs south briefly and then almost due east, parallel to 15th Street, to connect with the West Fork of the White River at the White River Baseball Complex. It was so named because it was the … More Town Branch
Tanglewood Branch was named through a contest in the 2000s by residents of the neighborhoods that border the creek. It runs from about the Chi Omega Greek Theatre on the University of Arkansas campus south and southeast to connect with Spout Spring Creek at on the west side of Walker Park.
The August 1, 1886, birth record for Ollie Greathouse lists her place of birth as “Fayetteville-Talladega Springs,” but the location of the springs is unknown so far. Her family was listed as living at Elm Springs in the 1900 U.S. Census. Her father, Braxton Bragg Greathouse, was born at Johnson in 1863, and her mother, … More Talladega Springs
Rochier’s Pond was a small spring-fed pond across the highway from Fayetteville High School. The earliest reference to this pond was in 1839 when the Benge contingent of Cherokee citizens passed through Fayetteville after being forced from their homelands in Georgia, North Carolina and Tennessee west to the present-day Oklahoma. They were mentioned as having … More Rochier’s Pond
Niokaska Creek, which flows from near Root School north to join Mud Creek, was named in 2008. … More Niokaska Creek
The Boston Mountain Divide separates the rainwater falling on Fayetteville into the streams feeding the Arkansas River and those feeding the White River. … More Boston Mountain Divide