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Clayton Spur

Ghost town · Polk County, Arkansas

Cove quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1959, 1:62,500)
Cove quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1959, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Clayton Spur is a ghost town in Polk County, Arkansas. It is one of 5 former communities in Polk County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 60th among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Clayton Spur as a historical populated place on the Cove 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 34.4737° N, 94.3774° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleCove
Elevation924 ft
Nearest living townHatfield, AR
Distance to it0.8 miles
GNIS feature ID63176
Coordinates34.47372, -94.37744

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.

Clayton Spur today, aerial view
Cove quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1959, 1:62,500)

Left: Cove quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1959, 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

Clayton Spur is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Hatfield, AR (population 517), about 0.8 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 924 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 Clayton Spur?

Clayton Spur is in Polk County, Arkansas, at 34.4737, -94.3774.

How many ghost towns are in Polk County?

Polk County, Arkansas has 5 ghost towns on record at Wayfarrow.

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