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Welcome to Wild Cherry ...

Wild Cherry is located in Fulton County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Wild Cherry, you might consider that their post office opened in 1878.

Wild Cherry is 850 feet [259 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Wild Cherry lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Codes for Wild Cherry: 870 & 327<3>

Communities near Wild Cherry ...

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

  • Mountain Home
    (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
  • Horseshoe Bend
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
  • Melbourne
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Calico Rock
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Salem
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Oxford
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Oxford is located in Izard County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oxford
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 682 people
  • Norfork
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
  • Salesville
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
  • Viola
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Briarcliff
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
    • Briarcliff is located in Baxter County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Briarcliff
    • 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 Wild Cherry. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Wild Cherry.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Wild Cherry. 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 Wild Cherry.

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Wild Cherry ...

Looking for more information about Wild Cherry? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Wild Cherry, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Wild Cherry.

Adding Wild Cherry to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Wild Cherry in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for Wild Cherry was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5>

From that list, the Wild Cherry post office opened in 1878. The Wild Cherry post office closed in 1967.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Wild Cherry.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Arkansas' counties, including Fulton, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Wild Cherry - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<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 Wild Cherry area will be assigned with one of these codes: 870 or 327. As a result, placing a call in the Wild Cherry area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>A copy of the Blevins & Helbock Post Office list with background information can be found at:

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