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Meto

Ghost town · Lonoke County, Arkansas

Jacksonville quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1943, 1:31,680)
Jacksonville quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1943, 1:31,680) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Meto is a ghost town in Lonoke County, Arkansas. It is one of 4 former communities in Lonoke County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 70th among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Meto as a historical populated place on the Jacksonville 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 34.7851° N, 92.0024° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleJacksonville
Elevation240 ft
Nearest living townLonoke, AR
Distance to it5.4 miles
GNIS feature ID61333
Coordinates34.78509, -92.00236

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.

Meto today, aerial view
Jacksonville quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1943, 1:31,680)

Left: Jacksonville quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1943, 1:31,680), 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

Meto is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Lonoke, AR (population 4,260), about 5.4 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 240 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 Meto?

Meto is in Lonoke County, Arkansas, at 34.7851, -92.0024.

How many ghost towns are in Lonoke County?

Lonoke County, Arkansas has 4 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.