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Strickler (formerly Stricklers) 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 Cove Creek Township, Washington 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."Feature Detail Report for: Strickler, Arkansas."
USGS The United States Geological Survey (USGS), founded as the Geological Survey, is an government agency, agency of the United States Department of the Interior, U.S. Department of the Interior whose work spans the disciplines of biology, geograp ...
. Retrieved September 25, 2010. It is located on Arkansas Highway 265, northwest of
Devil's Den State Park Devil's Den State Park is a List of Arkansas state parks, Arkansas state park in Washington County, Arkansas, Washington County, near West Fork, Arkansas in the United States. The park was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps, beginning in ...
.


History

The area was settled by Benjamin and Mary Strickler in 1837. A post office for the Greenville community (which would become Strickler) was open from 1854 to 1874, and the Strickler post office was open through 1878–1943. The community was located on the
Butterfield Overland Mail Butterfield Overland Mail (officially Overland Mail Company)Waterman L. Ormsby, edited by Lyle H. Wright and Josephine M. Bynum, "The Butterfield Overland Mail", The Huntington Library, San Marino, California, 1991. was a stagecoach service in ...
route."Strickler, Washington County, Arkansas." Retrieved April 29, 2011.


References

Unincorporated communities in Washington County, Arkansas Northwest Arkansas Unincorporated communities in Arkansas Populated places established in 1837 {{WashingtonCountyAR-geo-stub