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Stop

Ghost town · Crawford County, Arkansas

Evansville quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1970, 1:24,000)
Evansville quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1970, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Stop is a ghost town in Crawford County, Arkansas. It is one of 6 former communities in Crawford County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 54th among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Stop as a historical populated place on the Evansville 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 35.7520° N, 94.4113° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleEvansville
Elevation1,009 ft
Nearest living townEvansville, AR
Distance to it5.1 miles
GNIS feature ID66233
Coordinates35.75203, -94.41133

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.

Stop today, aerial view
Evansville quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1970, 1:24,000)

Left: Evansville quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1970, 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

Stop is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Evansville, AR (population 39), about 5.1 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 1,009 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 Stop?

Stop is in Crawford County, Arkansas, at 35.7520, -94.4113.

How many ghost towns are in Crawford County?

Crawford County, Arkansas has 6 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.