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Ray Station

Ghost town · Jefferson County, Arkansas

Noble Lake quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1935, 1:62,500)
Noble Lake quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1935, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Ray Station is a ghost town in Jefferson County, Arkansas. It is one of 15 former communities in Jefferson County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 11th among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Ray Station as a historical populated place on the Moscow 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 34.2237° N, 91.8196° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleMoscow
Elevation199 ft
Nearest living townAltheimer, AR
Distance to it7.3 miles
GNIS feature ID60690
Coordinates34.22371, -91.81958

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.

Ray Station today, aerial view
Noble Lake quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1935, 1:62,500)

Left: Noble Lake quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1935, 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

Ray Station is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Altheimer, AR (population 578), about 7.3 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 199 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 Ray Station?

Ray Station is in Jefferson County, Arkansas, at 34.2237, -91.8196.

How many ghost towns are in Jefferson County?

Jefferson County, Arkansas has 15 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.