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Cow Mound

Ghost town · Woodruff County, Arkansas

Gregory quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1935, 1:62,500)
Gregory quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1935, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Cow Mound is a ghost town in Woodruff County, Arkansas. It is one of 10 former communities in Woodruff County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 34th among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Cow Mound as a historical populated place on the Cotton Plant 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 35.0587° N, 91.3376° W.

In old newspapers

The earliest digitized newspaper pages printed in Arkansas before 1931 that mention “Cow Mound”, from the Library of Congress. A page may use the name for something else; open it to read the context. 17 pages in all.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleCotton Plant
Elevation183 ft
Nearest living townCotton Plant, AR
Distance to it6.1 miles
GNIS feature ID78898
Coordinates35.05870, -91.33763

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.

Cow Mound today, aerial view
Gregory quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1935, 1:62,500)

Left: Gregory quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1935, 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

Cow Mound is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Cotton Plant, AR (population 411), about 6.1 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 183 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 Cow Mound?

Cow Mound is in Woodruff County, Arkansas, at 35.0587, -91.3376.

How many ghost towns are in Woodruff County?

Woodruff 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.