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Bushtown

Ghost town · Johnson County, Arkansas

Magazine Mountain #1 quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1887, 1:62,500)
Magazine Mountain #1 quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1887, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Bushtown is a ghost town in Johnson County, Arkansas. It is one of 6 former communities in Johnson County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 56th among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Bushtown as a historical populated place on the Hartman 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 35.4737° N, 93.5363° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleHartman
Elevation405 ft
Nearest living townClarksville, AR
Distance to it3.4 miles
GNIS feature ID65132
Coordinates35.47369, -93.53630

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.

Bushtown today, aerial view
Magazine Mountain #1 quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1887, 1:62,500)

Left: Magazine Mountain #1 quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1887, 1:62,500), 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

Bushtown is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Clarksville, AR (population 9,500), about 3.4 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 405 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 Bushtown?

Bushtown is in Johnson County, Arkansas, at 35.4737, -93.5363.

How many ghost towns are in Johnson County?

Johnson County, Arkansas has 6 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.