Editing Gosnell, Arkansas (section)

==Geography==
Gosnell is located in the [[Arkansas Delta]] in northern Mississippi County. It is bordered to the east by the city of [[Blytheville, Arkansas|Blytheville]], the [[county seat]]. The [[Missouri]] state line is less than {{convert|3|mi|0}} to the north. According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], Gosnell has a total area of {{convert|1.6|sqmi}}, all land.<ref name="CenPopGazetteer2021"/>

Ecologically, Gosnell is located within the [[St. Francis Lowlands]] [[ecoregion]] near its border with the [[Northern Holocene Meander Belts]] ecoregion; both are subregions of the larger [[Mississippi Alluvial Plain]]. The St. Francis Lowlands are a flat region mostly covered with [[row crop]] agriculture today, though also containing sand blows and sunken lands remaining from the [[1811–12 New Madrid earthquakes]]. Waterways have mostly been [[Channelization (river)|channelized]], causing loss of aquatic and [[riparian]] wildlife habitat.<ref name=ark4>{{USGS|title=Ecoregions of Arkansas|comment=color poster with map, descriptive text, summary tables, and photographs |author= Woods, A.J., Foti, T.L., Chapman, S.S., Omernik, J.M. |display-authors=et al |url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Level_IV_ecoregions,_Arkansas.pdf }}</ref> The [[Big Lake National Wildlife Refuge]], which preserves some of the [[bottomland hardwood forest]] typical of this ecoregion prior to development for row agriculture, lies {{convert|6|mi|0}} west of Gosnell.
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=== Historical sites ===
Leaving Blytheville on Chickasawba Street, one reaches Gosnell Road. Upon traveling {{convert|1.3|mi}} one comes to the place of the famous Chickasawba Indian Mound 25 feet high and base circumference approximately 130 feet.  This mound most likely served as either a Signal or a Temple Mound as no pottery or skeleton bones have been found here.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.mcagov.com/history/gosnell |title=Gosnell &#124; Mississippi County, Arkansas |access-date=May 14, 2013 |archive-date=February 27, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140227203644/http://www.mcagov.com/history/gosnell |url-status=dead }}</ref>