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Smead

Ghost town · Calhoun County, Arkansas

Woodberry quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1973, 1:24,000)
Woodberry quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1973, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Smead is a ghost town in Calhoun County, Arkansas. It is one of 8 former communities in Calhoun County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 44th among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Smead as a historical populated place on the Woodberry 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 33.6154° N, 92.6124° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleWoodberry
Elevation198 ft
Nearest living townEast Camden, AR
Distance to it7.6 miles
GNIS feature ID61614
Coordinates33.61539, -92.61238

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.

Smead today, aerial view
Woodberry quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1973, 1:24,000)

Left: Woodberry quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1973, 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

Smead is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is East Camden, AR (population 1,326), about 7.6 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 198 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 Smead?

Smead is in Calhoun County, Arkansas, at 33.6154, -92.6124.

How many ghost towns are in Calhoun County?

Calhoun County, Arkansas has 8 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.