Patterson is a city[3] in Woodruff County, Arkansas, United States.

[5] The town name later changed to Jelks, and it was briefly the western terminus of a third railroad, the McCrory and Beedeville Southern Railway, which arrived in 1911 but was bankrupt and out of business by 1914.

[5] While the town still has a rail connection, the junction is gone because the successors of the Batesville and Brinkley removed that line around the start of World War II.

[5] According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 2.8 km2 (1.1 mi2), all land.

As of the 2020 United States Census, there were 310 people, 207 households, and 120 families residing in the city.