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Welcome to Custer ...

So far, we found very little information about Custer. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Custer to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Custer, please Contact Us.

Custer was located in the Arkansas Ozarks.

Custer would have been located within present day Baxter County<2>.


We aren't confident of the location of Custer, so consider the above location as an estimate.<3>


While we don't have a date for the founding of Custer, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1908. The community was inundated by Norfork Lake.

While the community is gone, the present day location for Custer is 520 feet [158 m] above sea level.<4>.

Time Zone: The area where Custer was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Custer would have been located in the (870) area code.

Communities Also Named Custer ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 22 communities that are also named Custer - they are located in Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma (2), Pennsylvania (2), South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Washington (2) and Wisconsin.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Custer.

Communities near Custer ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Custer.

  • Mountain Home
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mountain Home have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mountain Home
    • Mountain Home is located in Baxter County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 12,638 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Mountain Home <6>
  • Gassville
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Gassville have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gassville
    • Gassville is located in Baxter County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,173 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Gassville <6>
  • Bull Shoals
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bull Shoals have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bull Shoals
    • Bull Shoals is located in Marion County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,952 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Bull Shoals <6>
  • Cotter
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cotter have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cotter
    • Cotter is located in Baxter County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 956 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Cotter <6>
  • Gainesville
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Lakeview
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lakeview have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeview
    • Lakeview is located in Baxter County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 724 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lakeview <6>
  • Norfork
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Norfork have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Norfork
    • Norfork is located in Baxter County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 542 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Norfork <6>
  • Salesville
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
  • Viola
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
  • Briarcliff
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Briarcliff have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Briarcliff
    • Briarcliff is located in Baxter County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 250 people

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Custer. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Custer.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Custer. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Custer.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Custer. See our Newspapers Page for Custer.

Adding Custer to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Custer in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Custer was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<7>

From that list, the Custer post office opened in 1908.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Custer.

The official website for Baxter County: www.baxtercounty.org/

The official website for State of Arkansas: https://portal.arkansas.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Custer, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>If you're interested in how the shape of Arkansas' counties, including Baxter, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<4>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Custer - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<5>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<6>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<7>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/




 

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