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Morelock

Ghost town · Woodruff County, Arkansas

Hunter quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1939, 1:62,500)
Hunter quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1939, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Morelock is a ghost town in Woodruff County, Arkansas. It is one of 10 former communities in Woodruff County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 34th among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Morelock as a historical populated place on the Hunter East 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 35.0604° N, 91.1218° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleHunter East
Elevation213 ft
Nearest living townHunter, AR
Distance to it0.4 miles
GNIS feature ID60668
Coordinates35.06037, -91.12179

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.

Morelock today, aerial view
Hunter quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1939, 1:62,500)

Left: Hunter quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1939, 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

Morelock is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Hunter, AR (population 139), about 0.4 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 213 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 Morelock?

Morelock is in Woodruff County, Arkansas, at 35.0604, -91.1218.

How many ghost towns are in Woodruff County?

Woodruff County, Arkansas has 10 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.