Auvergne is a community in Jackson County, Arkansas, United States. The unincorporated town is located a couple miles southeast of Newport, Arkansas, on Arkansas Highway 17. The area is sparsely populated with a few houses on the main stretch of the highway surrounded by large swathes of farmland. The area was a hub of agriculture and timber industries. A graveyard is to the southeast.
History
The town was settled in the 1830s, but it was not until the 1870s that the first formal settlement was created. ==Name==
Name
Local history records indicate that it was James T. Henderson's wife who picked the settlement’s name. Two stories have evolved for the origin of the name, one states that she had read a novel with the name, while another says that she saw the name on a barrel of flour. ==References==