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Chaplin

Ghost town · Madison County, Arkansas

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

Chaplin is a ghost town in Madison County, Arkansas. It is one of 6 former communities in Madison County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 57th among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Chaplin as a historical populated place on the Forum 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 36.2454° N, 93.6346° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleForum
Elevation1,237 ft
Nearest living townBerryville, AR
Distance to it9.4 miles
GNIS feature ID66392
Coordinates36.24535, -93.63463

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.

Chaplin today, aerial view
Forum quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1973, 1:24,000)

Left: Forum 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

Chaplin is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Berryville, AR (population 5,715), about 9.4 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 1,237 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 Chaplin?

Chaplin is in Madison County, Arkansas, at 36.2454, -93.6346.

How many ghost towns are in Madison County?

Madison County, Arkansas has 6 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.