Blue Mountain, Arkansas

This is an incorporated town on the very eastern edge of Logan County on State Highway #10. Its population has inched forward over the last several decades from about 90 to about 110 people. There used to be a store on the highway, but it is no longer in business. There is a geographic feature called Blue Mountain somewhere in the state, but it is not close to the town and as far as I know has no relationship to it.

The Rock Island Railroad used to run through Blue Mountain, and my father can remember walking down the tracks in his youth from Magazine to Blue Mountain. There is a beautiful cemetery on the western edge of town, and just across the highway is the meeting house of Little Vine Primitive Baptist Church. This building used to be a two-room school house many years ago, but was purchased and converted to religious use by the church in my early youth.

The sign on the edge of town proclaims that Blue Mountain is "The Gateway to Blue Mountain Lake," which is a popular fishing spot. I am told that some of the land the lake covers was once owned by my great-grandfather Loyd.


Blue Mountain Lake