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Belmont

Ghost town · Crawford County, Arkansas

Winslow #4 quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1898, 1:62,500)
Winslow #4 quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1898, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Belmont is a ghost town in Crawford County, Arkansas. It is one of 6 former communities in Crawford County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 54th among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Belmont as a historical populated place on the Mountainburg SW 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 35.5598° N, 94.1785° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleMountainburg SW
Elevation873 ft
Nearest living townRudy, AR
Distance to it4.1 miles
GNIS feature ID66230
Coordinates35.55981, -94.17854

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.

Belmont today, aerial view
Winslow #4 quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1898, 1:62,500)

Left: Winslow #4 quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1898, 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

Belmont is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Rudy, AR (population 149), about 4.1 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 873 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 Belmont?

Belmont is in Crawford County, Arkansas, at 35.5598, -94.1785.

How many ghost towns are in Crawford County?

Crawford County, Arkansas has 6 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.