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Essex

Ghost town · White County, Arkansas

Beebe quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1963, 1:24,000)
Beebe quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1963, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Essex is a ghost town in White County, Arkansas. It is one of 19 former communities in White County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 7th among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Essex as a historical populated place on the Beebe 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 35.1098° N, 91.9010° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleBeebe
Elevation294 ft
Nearest living townBeebe, AR
Distance to it2.6 miles
GNIS feature ID65062
Coordinates35.10981, -91.90098

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.

Essex today, aerial view
Beebe quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1963, 1:24,000)

Left: Beebe quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1963, 1:24,000), 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

Essex is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Beebe, AR (population 8,580), about 2.6 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 294 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 Essex?

Essex is in White County, Arkansas, at 35.1098, -91.9010.

How many ghost towns are in White County?

White County, Arkansas has 19 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.