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Racket Ridge

Ghost town · Van Buren County, Arkansas

Rex quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1965, 1:24,000)
Rex quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1965, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Racket Ridge 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 Racket Ridge as a historical populated place on the Rex 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 35.5467° N, 92.6460° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleRex
Elevation1,337 ft
Nearest living townClinton, AR
Distance to it10.9 miles
GNIS feature ID68691
Coordinates35.54675, -92.64600

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.

Racket Ridge today, aerial view
Rex quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1965, 1:24,000)

Left: Rex quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1965, 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

Racket Ridge is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Clinton, AR (population 2,506), about 10.9 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 1,337 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 Racket Ridge?

Racket Ridge is in Van Buren County, Arkansas, at 35.5467, -92.6460.

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.