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Cuneo

Ghost town · Prairie County, Arkansas

Hazen quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1935, 1:62,500)
Hazen quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1935, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Cuneo is a ghost town in Prairie County, Arkansas. It is one of 19 former communities in Prairie County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 6th among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Cuneo as a historical populated place on the Carlisle 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 34.7806° N, 91.6321° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleCarlisle
Elevation232 ft
Nearest living townHazen, AR
Distance to it4.2 miles
GNIS feature ID59987
Coordinates34.78065, -91.63208

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.

Cuneo today, aerial view
Hazen quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1935, 1:62,500)

Left: Hazen quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1935, 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

Cuneo is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Hazen, AR (population 1,960), about 4.2 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 232 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 Cuneo?

Cuneo is in Prairie County, Arkansas, at 34.7806, -91.6321.

How many ghost towns are in Prairie County?

Prairie County, Arkansas has 19 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.