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Chastain

Ghost town · Baxter County, Arkansas

Norfork quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1966, 1:24,000)
Norfork quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1966, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Chastain is a ghost town in Baxter County, Arkansas. It is one of 14 former communities in Baxter County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 15th among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Chastain as a historical populated place on the Norfork 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 36.1751° N, 92.2813° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleNorfork
Elevation621 ft
Nearest living townNorfork, AR
Distance to it2.4 miles
GNIS feature ID69350
Coordinates36.17507, -92.28127

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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.

Chastain today, aerial view
Norfork quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1966, 1:24,000)

Left: Norfork quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1966, 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

Chastain is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Norfork, AR (population 599), about 2.4 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 621 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 Chastain?

Chastain is in Baxter County, Arkansas, at 36.1751, -92.2813.

How many ghost towns are in Baxter County?

Baxter 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.