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Etta

Ghost town · Hot Spring County, Arkansas

Malvern quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1948, 1:62,500)
Malvern quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1948, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Etta is a ghost town in Hot Spring County, Arkansas. It is one of 12 former communities in Hot Spring County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 23rd among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Etta as a historical populated place on the Social Hill 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 34.2895° N, 92.8799° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleSocial Hill
Elevation246 ft
Nearest living townDonaldson, AR
Distance to it4.4 miles
GNIS feature ID66088
Coordinates34.28954, -92.87989

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.

Etta today, aerial view
Malvern quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1948, 1:62,500)

Left: Malvern quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1948, 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

Etta is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Donaldson, AR (population 376), about 4.4 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 246 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 Etta?

Etta is in Hot Spring County, Arkansas, at 34.2895, -92.8799.

How many ghost towns are in Hot Spring County?

Hot Spring County, Arkansas has 12 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.