The Acorn community is located where U.S. Highway
71 joins U.S. 270. Foran Gap, the pass through a saddle in Fourche
Mountain, through which U.S. Highway 71/270 travels can be seen.
Wolf Pinnacle to the east, one of the most striking features of
Fourche Mountain, can be seen from this overlook. The Forest Service
operated a fire tower on Wolf Pinnacle until aerial reconnaissance
made the tower obsolete.
The Acorn community was an early settlement, formerly known as "gourd
Neck". The name was derived from the shape of the valley, with
the "handle" of the gourd lying between Fourche and Rich
Mountains. Through this neck pass the headwaters of the Ouachita
River, the Kansas City southern Railway, and U.S. Highway 270/59.
