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Blue Ball is an
unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in
Scott Scott may refer to: Places Canada * Scott, Quebec, municipality in the Nouvelle-Beauce regional municipality in Quebec * Scott, Saskatchewan, a town in the Rural Municipality of Tramping Lake No. 380 * Rural Municipality of Scott No. 98, Sas ...
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counties, in the
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of
Arkansas Arkansas ( ) is a landlocked state in the West South Central region of the Southern United States. It borders Missouri to the north, Tennessee and Mississippi to the east, Louisiana to the south, Texas to the southwest, and Oklahoma ...
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History

Blue Ball was founded in 1873, and according to tradition was named from the fancied resemblance of a nearby mountain to a blue ball. A variant name is "Blueball". A post office called Blue Ball was established in 1873, and remained in operation until 1955. Blue Ball is the nearest settlement to Powder Magazine, a ruined
Civilian Conservation Corps The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a voluntary government unemployment, work relief program that ran from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men ages 18–25 and eventually expanded to ages 17–28. The CCC was ...
structure. The Powder Magazine was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.


References

Unincorporated communities in Arkansas Unincorporated communities in Scott County, Arkansas Unincorporated communities in Yell County, Arkansas Northwest Arkansas {{ScottCountyAR-geo-stub