The recent discovery of a 30-year-old error has resulted in the loss of hundreds of acres of land inside the limits of a city on the Fulton/Sharp county line. Ash Flat’s land on its north side was supposedly annexed into city, but the state of Arkansas recently notified officials no paperwork was filed by Fulton County at the time.
A report by Jonesboro television station KAIT shows Ash Flat Mayor Larry Fowler saying, “It’s 300-400 acres of land. That particular area out there of Greystone Road back through Wood Hollow is no longer in our city limits. March 23, 1992, there was an annexation filed with the state. We have the documentation that they had received everything from the City of Ash Flat and Sharp County. Fulton County never did file with the state on that, which makes that part of the annexation null and void.”
The land in Fulton County near Highland is still considered inside the Ash Flat city limits. The error reportedly affects the land on the north side of town near the Ozarka College campus.
Ash Flat will go through the process of attempting to annex the land back into the city limits. Fowler says, “We will have to go back through the petition process with the landowners out there. They will all have to agree to this annexation and then all the legal stuff.”
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