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Hopefield

Ghost town · Crittenden County, Arkansas

Memphis quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1916, 1:62,500)
Memphis quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1916, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Hopefield is a ghost town in Crittenden County, Arkansas, recorded as community in Crittenden County, Arkansas. It is one of 8 former communities in Crittenden County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 39th among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Hopefield as a historical populated place on the Northwest Memphis 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 35.1554° N, 90.0748° W.

In old newspapers

The earliest digitized newspaper pages printed in Arkansas before 1931 that mention “Hopefield”, from the Library of Congress. A page may use the name for something else; open it to read the context. 357 pages in all.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleNorthwest Memphis
Elevation217 ft
Nearest living townMemphis, TN
Distance to it6.9 miles
GNIS feature ID67783
Coordinates35.15537, -90.07481

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.

Hopefield today, aerial view
Memphis quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1916, 1:62,500)

Left: Memphis quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1916, 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

Hopefield is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Memphis, TN (population 629,063), about 6.9 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 217 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 Hopefield?

Hopefield is in Crittenden County, Arkansas, at 35.1554, -90.0748.

How many ghost towns are in Crittenden County?

Crittenden County, Arkansas has 8 ghost towns on record at Wayfarrow.

Sources and licences

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.