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Barbara

Ghost town · Washington County, Arkansas

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

Barbara is a ghost town in Washington County, Arkansas. It is one of 12 former communities in Washington County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 21st among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Barbara as a historical populated place on the Fayetteville 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 36.0917° N, 94.1619° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleFayetteville
Elevation1,259 ft
Nearest living townFayetteville, AR
Distance to it1.4 miles
GNIS feature ID65282
Coordinates36.09175, -94.16187

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.

Barbara today, aerial view
Fayetteville quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1958, 1:24,000)

Left: Fayetteville 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

Barbara is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Fayetteville, AR (population 97,227), about 1.4 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 1,259 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 Barbara?

Barbara is in Washington County, Arkansas, at 36.0917, -94.1619.

How many ghost towns are in Washington County?

Washington County, Arkansas has 12 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.