[7] Sometime later, a railroad called the Augusta and Southeastern Railway built a 6-mile connecting line out of Coats to Gregory, Arkansas, on its west.
[8][9] When the Batesville and Brinkley became the White and Black River Valley Railway in 1890, it bought the Augusta and Southeastern and kept operating both lines.
[8][10] The town became known as Wiville sometime between 1894 and 1898,[10][11] purportedly because the community had become so famous for being the location of the "Y" branch in the railroad line.
[8][13] The line remained a separate part of the Rock Island until abandoned in pieces, with Wiville to Gregory done in 1934, and the remaining Brinkley to Newport portion through Wiville done in 1941.
[14][15] As of 2000, the locale was an agricultural area for cotton, rice, soybeans, wheat and fish.