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Oak Flat

Ghost town · Van Buren County, Arkansas

Leslie quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1963, 1:24,000)
Leslie quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1963, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Oak Flat is a ghost town in Van Buren County, Arkansas. It is one of 22 former communities in Van Buren County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 4th among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Oak Flat as a historical populated place on the Leslie 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 35.7687° N, 92.5502° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleLeslie
Elevation999 ft
Nearest living townDennard, AR
Distance to it1.4 miles
GNIS feature ID68681
Coordinates35.76869, -92.55016

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.

Oak Flat today, aerial view
Leslie quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1963, 1:24,000)

Left: Leslie quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1963, 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

Oak Flat is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Dennard, AR (population 381), about 1.4 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 999 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 Oak Flat?

Oak Flat is in Van Buren County, Arkansas, at 35.7687, -92.5502.

How many ghost towns are in Van Buren County?

Van Buren County, Arkansas has 22 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.