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Cow Lake

Ghost town · Jackson County, Arkansas

Tilton quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1940, 1:62,500)
Tilton quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1940, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Cow Lake is a ghost town in Jackson County, Arkansas. It is one of 6 former communities in Jackson County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 52nd among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Cow Lake as a historical populated place on the Beedeville 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 35.4579° N, 91.0571° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleBeedeville
Elevation219 ft
Nearest living townBeedeville, AR
Distance to it3.6 miles
GNIS feature ID61810
Coordinates35.45786, -91.05707

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.

Cow Lake today, aerial view
Tilton quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1940, 1:62,500)

Left: Tilton quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1940, 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

Cow Lake is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Beedeville, AR (population 59), about 3.6 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 219 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 Cow Lake?

Cow Lake is in Jackson County, Arkansas, at 35.4579, -91.0571.

How many ghost towns are in Jackson County?

Jackson 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.