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Bleaker

Ghost town · Cleveland County, Arkansas

Bunn quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1964, 1:24,000)
Bunn quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1964, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Bleaker is a ghost town in Cleveland County, Arkansas. It is one of 21 former communities in Cleveland County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 5th among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Bleaker as a historical populated place on the Bunn 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 34.0307° N, 92.4429° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleBunn
Elevation254 ft
Nearest living townCarthage, AR
Distance to it7.1 miles
GNIS feature ID60980
Coordinates34.03066, -92.44293

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.

Bleaker today, aerial view
Bunn quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1964, 1:24,000)

Left: Bunn quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1964, 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

Bleaker is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Carthage, AR (population 170), about 7.1 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 254 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 Bleaker?

Bleaker is in Cleveland County, Arkansas, at 34.0307, -92.4429.

How many ghost towns are in Cleveland County?

Cleveland County, Arkansas has 21 ghost towns on record at Wayfarrow.

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