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Bristol

Ghost town · Faulkner County, Arkansas

Enola quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1963, 1:24,000)
Enola quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1963, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

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

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Bristol as a historical populated place on the Enola 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 35.1662° N, 92.1321° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleEnola
Elevation363 ft
Nearest living townMount Vernon, AR
Distance to it4 miles
GNIS feature ID62743
Coordinates35.16620, -92.13209

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.

Bristol today, aerial view
Enola quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1963, 1:24,000)

Left: Enola quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1963, 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

Bristol is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Mount Vernon, AR (population 185), about 4 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 363 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 Bristol?

Bristol is in Faulkner County, Arkansas, at 35.1662, -92.1321.

How many ghost towns are in Faulkner County?

Faulkner 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.