The hot sulfur springs, for which the city is named, bubble up from below ground in a narrow gap in the Ouachita Mountains a little more than fifty miles west and slightly south of Little Rock.

• 城市的名字来源于小石城往西略偏南50多英里处沃希塔山脉一道狭谷中汩汩涌出的硫磺温泉。第一个发现这眼温泉的欧洲人是埃尔南多.；德索托。