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Stanley

Ghost town · Pike County, Arkansas

Narrows Dam quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1969, 1:24,000)
Narrows Dam quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1969, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Stanley is a ghost town in Pike County, Arkansas. It is one of 23 former communities in Pike County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 3rd among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Stanley as a historical populated place on the Narrows Dam 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 34.1368° N, 93.6352° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleNarrows Dam
Elevation604 ft
Nearest living townMurfreesboro, AR
Distance to it5.7 miles
GNIS feature ID64649
Coordinates34.13677, -93.63518

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.

Stanley today, aerial view
Narrows Dam quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1969, 1:24,000)

Left: Narrows Dam quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1969, 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

Stanley is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Murfreesboro, AR (population 1,815), about 5.7 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 604 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 Stanley?

Stanley is in Pike County, Arkansas, at 34.1368, -93.6352.

How many ghost towns are in Pike County?

Pike County, Arkansas has 23 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.