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Camp Pershing

Ghost town · Perry County, Arkansas

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

Camp Pershing is a ghost town in Perry County, Arkansas. It is one of 8 former communities in Perry County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 41st among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Camp Pershing as a historical populated place on the Thornburg 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 34.8793° N, 92.8116° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleThornburg
Elevation546 ft
Nearest living townPerryville, AR
Distance to it9.2 miles
GNIS feature ID65195
Coordinates34.87926, -92.81156

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.

Camp Pershing today, aerial view
Thornburg quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1963, 1:24,000)

Left: Thornburg 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

Camp Pershing is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Perryville, AR (population 1,303), about 9.2 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 546 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 Camp Pershing?

Camp Pershing is in Perry County, Arkansas, at 34.8793, -92.8116.

How many ghost towns are in Perry County?

Perry County, Arkansas has 8 ghost towns on record at Wayfarrow.

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