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Spring Lake

Ghost town · Garland County, Arkansas

Malvern quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1948, 1:62,500)
Malvern quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1948, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Spring Lake is a ghost town in Garland County, Arkansas. It is one of 13 former communities in Garland County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 20th among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Spring Lake as a historical populated place on the Lake Catherine 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 34.4820° N, 92.9905° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleLake Catherine
Elevation357 ft
Nearest living townHot Springs, AR
Distance to it3.4 miles
GNIS feature ID64355
Coordinates34.48203, -92.99045

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.

Spring Lake today, aerial view
Malvern quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1948, 1:62,500)

Left: Malvern quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1948, 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

Spring Lake is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Hot Springs, AR (population 38,023), about 3.4 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 357 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 Spring Lake?

Spring Lake is in Garland County, Arkansas, at 34.4820, -92.9905.

How many ghost towns are in Garland County?

Garland County, Arkansas has 13 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.