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Sims

Ghost town · Mississippi County, Arkansas

Jericho quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1931, 1:62,500)
Jericho quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1931, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Sims is a ghost town in Mississippi County, Arkansas. It is one of 10 former communities in Mississippi County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 37th among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Sims as a historical populated place on the Frenchmans Bayou 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 35.4959° N, 90.2420° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleFrenchmans Bayou
Elevation224 ft
Nearest living townBirdsong, AR
Distance to it2.6 miles
GNIS feature ID70095
Coordinates35.49592, -90.24204

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.

Sims today, aerial view
Jericho quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1931, 1:62,500)

Left: Jericho quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1931, 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

Sims is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Birdsong, AR (population 41), about 2.6 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 224 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 Sims?

Sims is in Mississippi County, Arkansas, at 35.4959, -90.2420.

How many ghost towns are in Mississippi County?

Mississippi County, Arkansas has 10 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.