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Oregon

Ghost town · Boone County, Arkansas

Bergman quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1967, 1:24,000)
Bergman quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1967, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Oregon is a ghost town in Boone County, Arkansas. It is one of 5 former communities in Boone County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 66th among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Oregon as a historical populated place on the Bergman 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 36.3020° N, 93.0210° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleBergman
Elevation1,297 ft
Nearest living townBergman, AR
Distance to it0.9 miles
GNIS feature ID69317
Coordinates36.30201, -93.02101

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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.

Oregon today, aerial view
Bergman quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1967, 1:24,000)

Left: Bergman quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1967, 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

Oregon is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Bergman, AR (population 582), about 0.9 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 1,297 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 Oregon?

Oregon is in Boone County, Arkansas, at 36.3020, -93.0210.

How many ghost towns are in Boone County?

Boone County, Arkansas has 5 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.