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Leidygate

Ghost town · Little River County, Arkansas

Winthrop quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1950, 1:24,000)
Winthrop quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1950, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Leidygate is a ghost town in Little River County, Arkansas. It is one of 5 former communities in Little River County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 65th among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Leidygate as a historical populated place on the Winthrop 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 33.7868° N, 94.2905° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleWinthrop
Elevation349 ft
Nearest living townAlleene, AR
Distance to it2.2 miles
GNIS feature ID60133
Coordinates33.78678, -94.29048

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.

Leidygate today, aerial view
Winthrop quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1950, 1:24,000)

Left: Winthrop quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1950, 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

Leidygate is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Alleene, AR (population 25), about 2.2 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 349 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 Leidygate?

Leidygate is in Little River County, Arkansas, at 33.7868, -94.2905.

How many ghost towns are in Little River County?

Little River County, Arkansas has 5 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.