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Blewford

Ghost town · Washington County, Arkansas

Robinson quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1970, 1:24,000)
Robinson quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1970, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Blewford 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 Blewford as a historical populated place on the Robinson 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 36.1690° N, 94.3313° W.

In old newspapers

The earliest digitized newspaper pages printed in Arkansas before 1931 that mention “Blewford”, from the Library of Congress. A page may use the name for something else; open it to read the context. 101 pages in all.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleRobinson
Elevation1,193 ft
Nearest living townTontitown, AR
Distance to it5 miles
GNIS feature ID65290
Coordinates36.16897, -94.33132

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.

Blewford today, aerial view
Robinson quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1970, 1:24,000)

Left: Robinson quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1970, 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

Blewford is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Tontitown, AR (population 5,739), about 5 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 1,193 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 Blewford?

Blewford is in Washington County, Arkansas, at 36.1690, -94.3313.

How many ghost towns are in Washington County?

Washington County, Arkansas has 12 ghost towns on record at Wayfarrow.

Sources and licences

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.