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Stoops

Ghost town · Monroe County, Arkansas

Brinkley quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1940, 1:62,500)
Brinkley quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1940, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Stoops is a ghost town in Monroe County, Arkansas. It is one of 7 former communities in Monroe County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 48th among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Stoops as a historical populated place on the Keevil 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 34.7940° N, 91.1557° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleKeevil
Elevation191 ft
Nearest living townMonroe, AR
Distance to it5 miles
GNIS feature ID61171
Coordinates34.79398, -91.15568

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.

Stoops today, aerial view
Brinkley quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1940, 1:62,500)

Left: Brinkley quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1940, 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

Stoops is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Monroe, AR (population 11), about 5 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 191 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 Stoops?

Stoops is in Monroe County, Arkansas, at 34.7940, -91.1557.

How many ghost towns are in Monroe County?

Monroe County, Arkansas has 7 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.