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Nickey

Ghost town · St. Francis County, Arkansas

Horseshoe Lake quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1931, 1:62,500)
Horseshoe Lake quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1931, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Nickey is a ghost town in St. Francis County, Arkansas. It is one of 9 former communities in St. Francis County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 38th among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Nickey as a historical populated place on the Hughes 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 34.9890° N, 90.4195° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleHughes
Elevation197 ft
Nearest living townHughes, AR
Distance to it4.1 miles
GNIS feature ID83031
Coordinates34.98898, -90.41954

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.

Nickey today, aerial view
Horseshoe Lake quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1931, 1:62,500)

Left: Horseshoe Lake quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1931, 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

Nickey is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Hughes, AR (population 898), about 4.1 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 197 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 Nickey?

Nickey is in St. Francis County, Arkansas, at 34.9890, -90.4195.

How many ghost towns are in St. Francis County?

St. Francis County, Arkansas has 9 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.