Gobbler (also known as Gobbler's Point)
[ is an ]unincorporated community
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in southern Carroll County, Arkansas
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, United States.U.S. Route 412
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and Arkansas Highway 103
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, approximately ten miles south of Green Forest.[''Arkansas Atlas & Gazetteer,'' DeLorme, 2nd ed., 2004, p. 23-4 ] The location is on a ridge between the headwaters of Piney Creek to the northwest and a small tributary to Osage Creek
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The stream headwaters arise just southeast of Rogers (at ) and it flows generally west past the south side of Rogers. It re ...
to the southeast at an elevation of .[
The community was established in the 1800s by Alexander Wilson, who moved into the area from ]Tennessee
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, where he was born in 1825. Wilson provided land for the community school, church and cemetery. The village school was active until the 1940s.[History of Gobbler]
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References
Unincorporated communities in Carroll County, Arkansas
Unincorporated communities in Arkansas
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