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Negro Head Corner

Ghost town · Woodruff County, Arkansas

Augusta quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1935, 1:62,500)
Augusta quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1935, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Negro Head Corner 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 Negro Head Corner as a historical populated place on the Augusta 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 35.3440° N, 91.3576° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleAugusta
Elevation216 ft
Nearest living townAugusta, AR
Distance to it4 miles
GNIS feature ID52597
Coordinates35.34397, -91.35763

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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.

Negro Head Corner today, aerial view
Augusta quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1935, 1:62,500)

Left: Augusta quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1935, 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

Negro Head Corner is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Augusta, AR (population 1,881), about 4 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 216 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 Negro Head Corner?

Negro Head Corner is in Woodruff County, Arkansas, at 35.3440, -91.3576.

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.