Welcome to Harper Springs ...

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

We've added Harper Springs to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Harper Springs - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Harper Springs, please Contact Us.

While we don't have the exact location of Harper Springs , we believe that it would have been located within present day Howard County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Harper Springs, you might consider that their post office opened in 1925.

A typical abbreviation for Harper Springs: Harper Spgs. (or less commonly used: Harper Spngs. or Harper Sprngs.)

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

The Area Codes where Harper Springs was located: 870 & 327<3>

Adding Harper Springs to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Harper Springs 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 Harper Springs was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>

From that list, the Harper Springs post office opened in 1925.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Harper Springs.

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 Harper Springs, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>	If you're interested in how the shape of Arkansas' counties, including Howard, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>	When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 870 code has been Overlayed with the 327 area code. New phone numbers in the Harper Springs area will be assigned with one of these codes: 870 or 327. As a result, placing a call in the Harper Springs area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<4>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/