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Irby

Ghost town · Crittenden County, Arkansas

Horseshoe Lake quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1931, 1:62,500)
Horseshoe Lake quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1931, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Irby is a ghost town 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 Irby as a historical populated place on the Horseshoe Lake 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 34.9945° N, 90.3168° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleHorseshoe Lake
Elevation206 ft
Nearest living townAnthonyville, AR
Distance to it3.4 miles
GNIS feature ID67787
Coordinates34.99454, -90.31676

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.

Irby today, aerial view
Horseshoe Lake quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1931, 1:62,500)

Left: Horseshoe Lake quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1931, 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

Irby is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Anthonyville, AR (population 82), about 3.4 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 206 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 Irby?

Irby is in Crittenden County, Arkansas, at 34.9945, -90.3168.

How many ghost towns are in Crittenden County?

Crittenden County, Arkansas has 8 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.