Baxter is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

Drew County, Arkansas Drew County is a county located in the southeast region of the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of the 2020 census, the population was 17,350. The county seat A county seat is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a co ...

, United States. It is located on

Arkansas Highway 35 Arkansas Highway 35 (AR 35) is a designation for three List of state highways in Arkansas, state highways in southeast Arkansas. One segment of runs from Macon Lake Road at Dewey north to U.S. Route 278 in Arkansas, U.S. Route 278 (US 278) in ...

west of Dermott, near where the highway crosses

Bayou Bartholomew Bayou Bartholomew is the longest bayou in the world, meandering approximately in the U.S. states of Arkansas and Louisiana.U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed June 3, 2011 ...

. Located from the bayou mouth, it traditionally marked the

head of navigation The head of navigation is the farthest point above the mouth of a river that can be navigated by ships. Determining the head of navigation can be subjective on many streams, as the point may vary greatly with the size or the draft of the ship b ...

on the bayou. The ''Baxter Vidette'', an

African-American newspaper African Americans, also known as Black Americans and formerly also called Afro-Americans, are an American racial and ethnic group that consists of Americans who have total or partial ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa. ...

, began publishing in Baxter in 1902.

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