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Watkins

Ghost town · Boone County, Arkansas

Harrison quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1967, 1:24,000)
Harrison quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1967, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Watkins is a ghost town in Boone County, Arkansas. It is one of 5 former communities in Boone County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 66th among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Watkins as a historical populated place on the Harrison 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 36.1384° N, 93.0602° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleHarrison
Elevation1,294 ft
Nearest living townValley Springs, AR
Distance to it4.1 miles
GNIS feature ID69330
Coordinates36.13841, -93.06017

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.

Watkins today, aerial view
Harrison quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1967, 1:24,000)

Left: Harrison quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1967, 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

Watkins is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Valley Springs, AR (population 198), about 4.1 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 1,294 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 Watkins?

Watkins is in Boone County, Arkansas, at 36.1384, -93.0602.

How many ghost towns are in Boone County?

Boone 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.