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Two Mile

Ghost town · Polk County, Arkansas

Potter quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1958, 1:24,000)
Potter quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1958, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Two Mile is a ghost town in Polk County, Arkansas. It is one of 5 former communities in Polk County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 60th among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Two Mile as a historical populated place on the Potter 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 34.5112° N, 94.3477° W.

Key facts

USGS quadranglePotter
Elevation955 ft
Nearest living townHatfield, AR
Distance to it2.6 miles
GNIS feature ID63276
Coordinates34.51122, -94.34771

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.

Two Mile today, aerial view
Potter quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1958, 1:24,000)

Left: Potter quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1958, 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

Two Mile is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Hatfield, AR (population 517), about 2.6 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 955 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 Two Mile?

Two Mile is in Polk County, Arkansas, at 34.5112, -94.3477.

How many ghost towns are in Polk County?

Polk County, Arkansas has 5 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.