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Bayou Macon

Ghost town · Chicot County, Arkansas

Lake Village quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1936, 1:62,500)
Lake Village quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1936, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Bayou Macon is a ghost town in Chicot County, Arkansas. It is one of 11 former communities in Chicot County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 24th among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Bayou Macon as a historical populated place on the Lake Village 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 33.3182° N, 91.3240° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleLake Village
Elevation123 ft
Nearest living townLake Village, AR
Distance to it2.4 miles
GNIS feature ID61730
Coordinates33.31817, -91.32400

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.

Bayou Macon today, aerial view
Lake Village quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1936, 1:62,500)

Left: Lake Village quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1936, 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

Bayou Macon is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Lake Village, AR (population 2,280), about 2.4 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 123 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 Bayou Macon?

Bayou Macon is in Chicot County, Arkansas, at 33.3182, -91.3240.

How many ghost towns are in Chicot County?

Chicot County, Arkansas has 11 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.