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Zebulon

Ghost town · Pike County, Arkansas

Glenwood quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1942, 1:62,500)
Glenwood quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1942, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Zebulon is a ghost town in Pike County, Arkansas. It is one of 23 former communities in Pike County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 3rd among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Zebulon as a historical populated place on the Lodi 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 34.3098° N, 93.6307° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleLodi
Elevation818 ft
Nearest living townKirby, AR
Distance to it4.1 miles
GNIS feature ID64653
Coordinates34.30982, -93.63074

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.

Zebulon today, aerial view
Glenwood quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1942, 1:62,500)

Left: Glenwood quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1942, 1:62,500), 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

Zebulon is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Kirby, AR (population 582), about 4.1 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 818 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 Zebulon?

Zebulon is in Pike County, Arkansas, at 34.3098, -93.6307.

How many ghost towns are in Pike County?

Pike County, Arkansas has 23 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.