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Providence

Ghost town · Faulkner County, Arkansas

Fourche quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1961, 1:24,000)
Fourche quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1961, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Providence is a ghost town in Faulkner County, Arkansas. It is one of 14 former communities in Faulkner County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 14th among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Providence as a historical populated place on the Fourche 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 34.9806° N, 92.5154° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleFourche
Elevation286 ft
Nearest living townMayflower, AR
Distance to it5.1 miles
GNIS feature ID76126
Coordinates34.98064, -92.51544

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.

Providence today, aerial view
Fourche quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1961, 1:24,000)

Left: Fourche quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1961, 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

Providence is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Mayflower, AR (population 2,802), about 5.1 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 286 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 Providence?

Providence is in Faulkner County, Arkansas, at 34.9806, -92.5154.

How many ghost towns are in Faulkner County?

Faulkner County, Arkansas has 14 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.