Lee Creek 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 ...
in
Crawford County, Arkansas
Crawford County is a county located in the Ozarks region of the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 60,133. The county seat and largest city is Van Buren. Crawford County was formed on October 18, 1820, from the ...
,
lying along
Highway 220 and
Lee Creek north of
Cedarville.
History
A variant name was "Cove City".
The community was
plat
In the United States, a plat ( or ) (plan) is a cadastral map, drawn to scale, showing the divisions of a piece of land. United States General Land Office surveyors drafted township plats of Public Lands Survey System, Public Lands Surveys to ...
ted in 1880 as "Cove City".
The present name is after nearby
Lee Creek. A proposal to officially change the town's name to "Leescreek" failed in the 1960s.
References
Unincorporated communities in Crawford County, Arkansas
Unincorporated communities in Arkansas
Northwest Arkansas
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