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Budsmith

Ghost town · Cross County, Arkansas

Whitmore quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1940, 1:62,500)
Whitmore quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1940, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Budsmith is a ghost town in Cross County, Arkansas. It is one of 10 former communities in Cross County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 31st among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Budsmith as a historical populated place on the Wittsburg 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 35.2404° N, 90.7234° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleWittsburg
Elevation240 ft
Nearest living townWynne, AR
Distance to it3.7 miles
GNIS feature ID61628
Coordinates35.24037, -90.72344

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.

Budsmith today, aerial view
Whitmore quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1940, 1:62,500)

Left: Whitmore quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1940, 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

Budsmith is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Wynne, AR (population 8,220), about 3.7 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 240 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 Budsmith?

Budsmith is in Cross County, Arkansas, at 35.2404, -90.7234.

How many ghost towns are in Cross County?

Cross 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.