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Kaplin

Ghost town · Chicot County, Arkansas

Lake Village quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1936, 1:62,500)
Lake Village quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1936, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Kaplin is a ghost town in Chicot County, Arkansas. It is one of 11 former communities in Chicot County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 24th among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Kaplin as a historical populated place on the Macon 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 33.4023° N, 91.3126° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleMacon Lake
Elevation126 ft
Nearest living townLake Village, AR
Distance to it5.3 miles
GNIS feature ID61713
Coordinates33.40234, -91.31262

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.

Kaplin today, aerial view
Lake Village quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1936, 1:62,500)

Left: Lake Village quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1936, 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

Kaplin is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Lake Village, AR (population 2,280), about 5.3 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 126 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 Kaplin?

Kaplin is in Chicot County, Arkansas, at 33.4023, -91.3126.

How many ghost towns are in Chicot County?

Chicot County, Arkansas has 11 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.