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Vest

Ghost town · Izard County, Arkansas

Boswell quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1964, 1:24,000)
Boswell quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1964, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Vest is a ghost town in Izard County, Arkansas. It is one of 7 former communities in Izard County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 46th among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Vest as a historical populated place on the Boswell 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 36.0501° N, 92.0649° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleBoswell
Elevation520 ft
Nearest living townCalico Rock, AR
Distance to it6 miles
GNIS feature ID65919
Coordinates36.05007, -92.06487

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.

Vest today, aerial view
Boswell quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1964, 1:24,000)

Left: Boswell quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1964, 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

Vest is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Calico Rock, AR (population 1,795), about 6 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 520 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 Vest?

Vest is in Izard County, Arkansas, at 36.0501, -92.0649.

How many ghost towns are in Izard County?

Izard 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.