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Cave Spring

Ghost town · Carroll County, Arkansas

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

Cave Spring is a ghost town in Carroll County, Arkansas. It is one of 17 former communities in Carroll County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 10th among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Cave Spring as a historical populated place on the Marble 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 36.2048° N, 93.5730° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleMarble
Elevation1,358 ft
Nearest living townKingston, AR
Distance to it10.7 miles
GNIS feature ID69200
Coordinates36.20480, -93.57297

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.

Cave Spring today, aerial view
Marble quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1973, 1:24,000)

Left: Marble 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

Cave Spring is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Kingston, AR (population 123), about 10.7 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 1,358 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 Cave Spring?

Cave Spring is in Carroll County, Arkansas, at 36.2048, -93.5730.

How many ghost towns are in Carroll County?

Carroll County, Arkansas has 17 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.