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Bogota

Ghost town · Desha County, Arkansas

McGehee quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1936, 1:62,500)
McGehee quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1936, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Bogota is a ghost town in Desha County, Arkansas. It is one of 10 former communities in Desha County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 36th among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Bogota as a historical populated place on the McArthur topographic quadrangle: the name is no longer in official use for a community, whether the settlement was abandoned, absorbed into a neighbouring town or renamed. The recorded location is 33.6818° N, 91.3437° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleMcArthur
Elevation143 ft
Nearest living townMcGehee, AR
Distance to it4.8 miles
GNIS feature ID63845
Coordinates33.68178, -91.34373

Open the location on a map

Then and now

Drag the slider: the old USGS map on the left, the same ground from the air today on the right. Both cover the same 1.9-mile square centred on the recorded location.

Bogota today, aerial view
McGehee quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1936, 1:62,500)

Left: McGehee quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1936, 1:62,500), U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection. Right: The same ground today: NAIP aerial imagery, USDA Farm Service Agency, National Agriculture Imagery Program (via USGS). Both public domain.

What's there now

Bogota is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is McGehee, AR (population 3,744), about 4.8 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 143 feet above sea level. The aerial view above shows what covers the ground today. Much of the land around former townsites is private; check access before you visit.

Nearby places

Questions

Where is Bogota?

Bogota is in Desha County, Arkansas, at 33.6818, -91.3437.

How many ghost towns are in Desha County?

Desha County, Arkansas has 10 ghost towns on record at Wayfarrow.

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Facts marked "approximately" carry an uncertain date in the source. Text on this page is generated from the sources above; no encyclopedia prose is copied. Last updated 2026-11-05.