 A six-mile link of the Helena and Northwestern Railroad from Cotton Plant in Woodruff County to Fargo was thereafter operated by the Cotton Plant-Fargo Railway, which joined with the St. Louis Southwestern Railway, popularly known as The Cotton Belt.This Shortline railroad existed from 1952 into the 1970s, when it became the last portion of the old Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad to be abandoned

Fargo is located at (34.955140, -91.177179).According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 1.7 km² (0.7 mi²), of which 1.7 km² (0.6 mi²) is land and 0.1 km² (0.04 mi²) (2.99%) is water.