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Townsley

Ghost town · Madison County, Arkansas

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

Townsley is a ghost town in Madison County, Arkansas. It is one of 6 former communities in Madison County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 57th among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Townsley as a historical populated place on the Weathers 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 35.9251° N, 93.5024° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleWeathers
Elevation2,222 ft
Nearest living townKingston, AR
Distance to it9.1 miles
GNIS feature ID66413
Coordinates35.92508, -93.50241

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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.

Townsley today, aerial view
Weathers quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1973, 1:24,000)

Left: Weathers 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

Townsley is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Kingston, AR (population 123), about 9.1 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 2,222 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 Townsley?

Townsley is in Madison County, Arkansas, at 35.9251, -93.5024.

How many ghost towns are in Madison County?

Madison 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.