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Glynn

Ghost town · Bradley County, Arkansas

Banks quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1973, 1:24,000)
Banks quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1973, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Glynn is a ghost town in Bradley County, Arkansas. It is one of 14 former communities in Bradley County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 16th among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Glynn as a historical populated place on the Banks 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 33.6209° N, 92.2649° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleBanks
Elevation194 ft
Nearest living townBanks, AR
Distance to it3.1 miles
GNIS feature ID60512
Coordinates33.62094, -92.26487

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.

Glynn today, aerial view
Banks quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1973, 1:24,000)

Left: Banks quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1973, 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

Glynn is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Banks, AR (population 127), about 3.1 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 194 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 Glynn?

Glynn is in Bradley County, Arkansas, at 33.6209, -92.2649.

How many ghost towns are in Bradley County?

Bradley County, Arkansas has 14 ghost towns on record at Wayfarrow.

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