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==History== Waldron was [[plat]]ted in 1845 by surveyor W. P. Waldron, and named for him.<ref>{{Encyclopedia of Arkansas History|name=Waldron|id=985|retrieved=July 7, 2019}}</ref> A post office called Waldron has been in operation since 1846.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Post Offices |url=https://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?state=AR |access-date=February 9, 2018 |publisher=Jim Forte Postal History}}</ref> Waldron was incorporated in 1875.<ref>{{Cite book |last=McCutchen |first=Henry Grady |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t13n2fd40;view=1up;seq=59 |title=History of Scott County, Arkansas |publisher=22 |year=1922 |page=55}}</ref> Waldron was reached by the [[Arkansas Western Railway|Arkansas Western Railroad]] from [[Heavener, Oklahoma]] in 1901.<ref name="Encyc">{{Cite web |title=Arkansas Western Railroad |url=https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/arkansas-western-railroad-13920/ |access-date=July 5, 2022 |publisher=Encyclopedia of Arkansas}}</ref> Later called the [[Arkansas Western Railway]], a subsidiary of and subsequently incorporated into the [[Kansas City Southern Railway|Kansas City Southern]], the line is now leased to and operated by the [[Arkansas Southern Railroad]].<ref name="Encyc" /><ref name="McManus">{{Cite web |title=The Completion of the KCP&G β A Centennial History |url=https://meridianspeedway.weebly.com/kcpg-centennial-history.html |access-date=August 19, 2020 |publisher=Lowell G. McManus, The Meridian Speedway}}</ref>
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