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Blue Springs

Ghost town · Bradley County, Arkansas

Tinsman quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1973, 1:24,000)
Tinsman quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1973, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Blue Springs is a ghost town in Bradley County, Arkansas. It is one of 14 former communities in Bradley County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 16th among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Blue Springs as a historical populated place on the Tinsman 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 33.6337° N, 92.3076° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleTinsman
Elevation186 ft
Nearest living townTinsman, AR
Distance to it2.6 miles
GNIS feature ID60493
Coordinates33.63372, -92.30765

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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.

Blue Springs today, aerial view
Tinsman quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1973, 1:24,000)

Left: Tinsman quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1973, 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

Blue Springs is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Tinsman, AR (population 27), about 2.6 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 186 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 Blue Springs?

Blue Springs is in Bradley County, Arkansas, at 33.6337, -92.3076.

How many ghost towns are in Bradley County?

Bradley County, Arkansas has 14 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.