Burdette (Mississippi County) is located nine miles south of Blytheville
(Mississippi County) on State Highway 148 just off U.S. Highway 61,
known as the Great River Road.
Burdette is named after Alfred Burdette Wolverton, who in the early
1900s was one of the first lumbermen to settle in the area. It was
incorporated as a company town by workers of the Three States Lumber
Company of Wisconsin in May 1905. Prior to Three States Lumber Company’s
arrival, the area had been swampland and uninhabitable. Burdette
Township split from Fletcher Township in 1908 to create the community of
Burdette. Burdette proper is located within the larger Burdette
Township (a township being a division of a county), which includes
farming and lumber operations.
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