Pike County

Antoine (Pike County)
Antoine is located in the southeastern corner of Pike County on Highway 26, between Murfreesboro (Pike County)...
Billstown (Pike County)
Billstown is a small community about six miles southwest of Delight (Pike County) and ten miles southeast of M...
Glen Campbell (1936–2017)
aka: Glen Travis Campbell
Glen Travis Campbell was a commercially successful and critically a...
Caney Valley (Pike County)
Caney Valley of Pike County is a community located about five miles west of Amity (Clark County) and six miles...
Crater of Diamonds State Park
Located on State Highway 301 in Pike County, the Crater of Diamonds State Park contains the world’s only dia...
Daisy (Pike County)
Daisy is a town in Pike County, located on U.S. Highway 70 and on the shores of Lake Greeson. Daisy State Park...
Daisy State Park
Daisy State Park is situated on the northern shoreline of 7,000-acre Lake Greeson in southwest Arkansas. The c...
Delight (Pike County)
  Delight is located in the southeast corner of Pike County. It was a center for the timber industry in t...
Diamond Mining
Almost 100 million years ago, in what is now Pike County, nature created one of the world’s most unusual dia...
Clark Duke (1985–)
Actor, director, writer, and producer Clark Duke was raised in Glenwood (Pike and Montgomery counties). After ...
Glenwood (Pike and Montgomery Counties)
Glenwood, on U.S. Highway 70 west of Hot Springs (Garland County), is nestled in a bend of the Caddo River wit...
Glenwood Iron Mountain Railroad Depot
The Glenwood Iron Mountain Railroad Depot is a former depot located in Glenwood (Pike County). Constructed aro...
Elisabeth Chapline Herndon (1871–1957)
Sarah Elisabeth Chapline Herndon was the only volunteer Red Cross nurse from Arkansas to serve in the Spanish-...
John Wesley Huddleston (1862–1941)
John Wesley Huddleston is best known as a struggling farmer who found two diamonds on the surface of his field...
John Huddleston Day
Since 1984, Crater of Diamonds State Park near Murfreesboro (Pike County) has been sponsoring John Huddleston ...
Kimberley (Pike County)
Kimberley (Pike County)—spelled “Kimberly” in some sources—is a community that lies south of Murfreesb...
Kirby (Pike County)
Kirby is located on Highway 70 in Pike County, about halfway between Glenwood (Pike County) and Daisy (Pike Co...
Little Missouri River
The Little Missouri River in southwest Arkansas rises in the Ouachita Mountains of Polk County and flows south...
Henry Merrell (1816–1883)
Henry Merrell of New York was both an industrialist and an evangelical who contributed to the development of A...
Murfreesboro (Pike County)
Murfreesboro is the county seat of Pike County, which lies in the southwest corner of Arkansas and is an area ...
Narrows Dam
aka: Lake Greeson
Narrows Dam is located six miles north of Murfreesboro (Pike County...
Nathan (Pike County)
Nathan (Pike County) is a small community founded in the mid-1800s. Although it began as a farming community, ...
Newhope (Pike County)
Newhope is a community in Pike County located eight miles west of Daisy (Pike County) and Lake Greeson. The ea...
Pike City (Pike County)
Pike City is in the southwest corner of Pike County approximately four miles northeast of Murfreesboro (Pike C...
Pike County
Pike County, an area of immense geological diversity, is home to the Crater of Diamonds State Park, an ancient...
Pike County Archives and History Society
The Pike County Archives and History Society (PCAHS), located in Murfreesboro (Pike County) in southwestern Ar...
Pike County Courthouse
The Pike County Courthouse is located on Courthouse Square in the heart of downtown Murfreesboro (Pike County)...
Pisgah (Pike County)
Pisgah is a community located in Pike County about four miles south of Delight (Pike County) and four miles ea...
Polk Brothers (Lynching of)
On September 6, 1885, two white men popularly dubbed the “Polk boys”—brothers Henry and Sylvester Polk...
Alice L. Preston (1907–2010)
Alice Luberter Walker Preston was an African-American schoolteacher who was instrumental in the peaceful integ...
Rosboro (Pike County)
Rosboro is an unincorporated community located in the northeastern corner of Pike County. It is five miles wes...
Rosenwald School (Delight)
The Rosenwald School, located on Arkansas Highway 26, is a one-story, wood-frame building erected between Deli...