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Kings Mills

Ghost town · Sharp County, Arkansas

Ash Flat quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1962, 1:24,000)
Ash Flat quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1962, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Kings Mills is a ghost town in Sharp County, Arkansas. It is one of 11 former communities in Sharp County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 25th among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Kings Mills as a historical populated place on the Ash Flat 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 36.1945° N, 91.5463° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleAsh Flat
Elevation584 ft
Nearest living townAsh Flat, AR
Distance to it4.4 miles
GNIS feature ID78951
Coordinates36.19451, -91.54625

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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.

Kings Mills today, aerial view
Ash Flat quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1962, 1:24,000)

Left: Ash Flat quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1962, 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

Kings Mills is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Ash Flat, AR (population 1,309), about 4.4 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 584 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 Kings Mills?

Kings Mills is in Sharp County, Arkansas, at 36.1945, -91.5463.

How many ghost towns are in Sharp County?

Sharp County, Arkansas has 11 ghost towns on record at Wayfarrow.

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