List of ghost towns in Arkansas

This is an incomplete list of ghost towns in Arkansas, United States.

Classification

Barren site

• Sites no longer in existence
• Sites that have been destroyed
• Covered with water
• Reverted to pasture
• May have a few difficult to find foundations/footings at most

Neglected site

• Only rubble left
• Roofless building ruins
• Buildings or houses still standing, but majority are roofless

Abandoned site

• Building or houses still standing
• Buildings and houses all abandoned
• No population, except caretaker
• Site no longer in existence except for one or two buildings, for example old church, grocery store

The school at Oak Grove, which is still inhabited by 386 residents

Semi-abandoned site

• Building or houses still standing
• Buildings and houses largely abandoned
• Few residents
• Many abandoned buildings
• Small population

Historic community

• Building or houses still standing
• Still a busy community
• Smaller than its boom years
• Population has decreased dramatically, to one fifth or less

Table

Town name	Other names	County	Established	Disestablished	Current status	Remarks
Allis		Drew				Contains Saline Cemetery, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places[1]
Anderson Flat[2]		Independence
Anna		Crawford
Arkansas Post		Arkansas	1686	1863	Barren site, protected area
Armada		Crawford
Austin	Old Austin	Lonoke				The original site has since been abandoned.[3]
Barbara		Washington
Bartholomew		Drew				[3]
Bear City		Garland	1882		Mostly woods and a few houses, some active. Small population, but has regained interest in recent years with new constructions and more people moving in.	Written about by Donald Harrington and his wife in their book Let us Build Us a City. Bear City is on the road to Brady Mountain on Lake Ouachita.
Bernice		Pope
Bingen	Previously called Ozan (not to be confused with nearby Ozan)	Hempstead			Semi-abandoned, several houses remain	[4][5]
Blanchard Springs		Union				A former resort town.[3]
Blansett		Scott
Blewford		Washington
Bolding[2]		Union
Brownsville		Lonoke				Once the county seat of Prairie County before it became part of Lonoke County.[6][7]
Bruno[2]		Marion
Cadron	Cadron Settlement	Faulkner				The first permanent white settlement in Arkansas.[8][9]
Carrollton		Carroll			Historic
Carter	Carter's Store, Carter Store, Hicks[10]	Washington
Chalk Bluff[2]		Clay
Champagnolle	Champagnolle Landing, Scarborough Landing, Union Courthouse	Union				[11]
Cow Mound		Woodruff
Credit		Craighead
Crossroads[2]		Pulaski		1957	Submerged in Lake Maumelle	Town and Cemetery under water. Located Hwy 10/Hwy 113.
Daleville[2]		Clark	1880s			Currently the site of The Daily Lumber Company
Davidsonville		Randolph				Now a historic state park.[12]
Denver		Carroll				[13]
Dodd City		Marion				[14][15]
Dubuque			1814		Submerged	Submerged beneath Bull Shoals Lake
East Calico Rock		Izard				Contained within the city limits of current Calico Rock, was known as a rough part of town.[16][7]
Eldorado Springs	Eldorado[17]	Benton
Eros[2]		Marion				School listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Eunice		Chicot			Barren	Burned down by the Union Army in 1863.[18]
Forester		Scott				[19]
Four Gum Corner[2]		St. Francis			Mostly farm land now.
Frenchtown		Fulton				[3]
Frog Level	Froggy Level	Columbia				[3]
Gaskins		Carroll				[20]
Gate		Scott
Gobbler	Gobbler's Point	Carroll
Golden City		Logan				[3]
Graysonia		Clark	1902	1951	Ruins	Shipped the first flask of Arkansas cinnabar in 1932.
Greensboro		Craighead				[21]
Harness		Stone
Hix's Ferry		Randolph	1800			[3]
Hopefield		Crittenden				[22][3]
Kimberly		Pike	1908	1911	Incorporated into Murfreesboro
Kingdon Springs					Submerged	Flooded by Bull Shoals Lake.[23]
Lancaster		Crawford
Laynesport		Little River				[3]
Lewisburg		Conway	1831	1883		Was the county seat of Conway County until 1883.[24]
Marianna		Lee		1857		The original townsite was abandoned and moved further south in 1857.[25]
Mauldin		Montegomery	1918
Mcguire		Washington
Midway		Howard
Moko		Marion				[26]
Monte Ne		Benton	1901	1932	Submerged in Beaver Lake
Moscow		Nevada	1810	1873	Only Moscow Methodist Church and Cemetery remain	Economic displacement by Cairo and Fulton Railroad.[27]
Mount Olive		Howard
Mount Tabor			1854	1930s	Abandoned. The church remains.[26]	A small farming community.[28][16][26]
Napoleon		Desha			Submerged	Was once the county seat of Desha County.
Nebraska		Scott	1854[29]	1907[30]
Oak Grove		Carroll			Semi-abandoned[31]
Old Austin	Oakland Grove, Oakland, Saundersville, Atlanta	Lonoke				Declined after being bypassed by the railroad.[32]
Oregon		Boone		1896[33]
Osage	Fairview	Carroll
Paraclifta		Sevier[3]				[34][3]
Pinnacle Springs		Faulkner		1891	Barren	[34]
Racket Ridge		Van Buren
Richmond		Little River				[3]
Rondo		Miller				[3][35]
Rush		Marion	1880	1940	Ruins	A zinc mining region of the Ozark Mountains in Arkansas
Scotia		Pope				[7]
Sensation		Scott
Sexton	Salem Springs	Washington
Sneed		Jackson		1929	Barren site	Was destroyed by Arkansas' only F5 tornado on April 10, 1929.
Sub Rosa		Franklin		1911[36]
Tinsman		Calhoun
Violett		Arkansas			Barren site
Weathers		Madison			Abandoned site	Remains of old store/post office and old well are all that remain.
Winona Springs		Carroll
Wittsburg		Cross				[37][7]
Zinc		Marion				[26]

Gallery

• 
  Ruins of the New White Eagle Mill, Rush Historic District, Buffalo National River, Arkansas
• 
  The partially submerged Monte Ne Amphitheater in Monte Ne, Arkansas
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  An illustration of Arkansas Post, Arkansas, depicting the settlement in 1689. This was painted in 1904.

See also

• Dogpatch USA, an abandoned theme park in the northwest part of the state.
• Booger Hollow, Arkansas, an abandoned tourist attraction

References

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External links

• Ghost Towns of Arkansas
• Ghost Towns of Arkansas
• Missing Ghost Towns of Arkansas
• Arkansas Memory Project - Rush Ghost Town
• Arkansas Ghost Towns - Treasure Quest Metal Detecting