Appleton 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 ...

and

census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...

(CDP) in Griffin Township, Pope County,

Arkansas Arkansas ( ) is a landlocked state in the West South Central region of the Southern United States. It borders Missouri to the north, Tennessee and Mississippi to the east, Louisiana to the south, Texas to the southwest, and Oklahoma ...

, United States. It was first listed as a CDP in the 2020 census with a population of 399. The town contained a

post office A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letter (message), letters and parcel (package), parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post o ...

from 1879 until 1968. It was named for an apple orchard that surrounded an early drug store.

Demographics

2020 census

Education

It is in the

Hector School District Hector School District 59 is a public school district in Hector, Pope County, Arkansas. Most of the district is in Pope County, where it includes Hector and Appleton. A portion of the district extends into Searcy County. Text list/ref> Af ...

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References

{{authority control Census-designated places in Pope County, Arkansas Census-designated places in Arkansas Unincorporated communities in Pope County, Arkansas Unincorporated communities in Arkansas Populated places established in 1879