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Boyle

Ghost town · Stone County, Arkansas

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

Boyle is a ghost town in Stone County, Arkansas. It is one of 10 former communities in Stone County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 35th among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Boyle as a historical populated place on the Calico Rock 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 36.0442° N, 92.2029° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleCalico Rock
Elevation1,182 ft
Nearest living townFifty-Six, AR
Distance to it5.8 miles
GNIS feature ID65826
Coordinates36.04424, -92.20293

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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.

Boyle today, aerial view
Calico Rock quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1964, 1:24,000)

Left: Calico Rock 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

Boyle is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Fifty-Six, AR (population 177), about 5.8 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 1,182 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 Boyle?

Boyle is in Stone County, Arkansas, at 36.0442, -92.2029.

How many ghost towns are in Stone County?

Stone County, Arkansas has 10 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.