Wesley 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 western
Madison 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. Wesley is located at the junction of Arkansas highways
74 and
295, by road west-southwest of
Huntsville.
[''Arkansas Atlas and Gazetteer'', DeLorme, 2nd edition 2002, page = 23 ] Wesley has 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 ...
with
ZIP code 72773.
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/ref> It was first listed as a CDP in the 2020 census with a population of 161.
History
Wesley 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 1872.
Demographics
2020 census
References
Unincorporated communities in Madison County, Arkansas
Northwest Arkansas
Unincorporated communities in Arkansas
Census-designated places in Madison County, Arkansas
Census-designated places in Arkansas
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