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Cypress

Ghost town · Poinsett County, Arkansas

Marked Tree quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1941, 1:62,500)
Marked Tree quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1941, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Cypress is a ghost town in Poinsett County, Arkansas. It is one of 8 former communities in Poinsett County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 40th among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Cypress as a historical populated place on the Marked Tree 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 35.5854° N, 90.4537° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleMarked Tree
Elevation215 ft
Nearest living townMarked Tree, AR
Distance to it4.3 miles
GNIS feature ID65773
Coordinates35.58536, -90.45371

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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.

Cypress today, aerial view
Marked Tree quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1941, 1:62,500)

Left: Marked Tree quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1941, 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

Cypress is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Marked Tree, AR (population 2,235), about 4.3 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 215 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 Cypress?

Cypress is in Poinsett County, Arkansas, at 35.5854, -90.4537.

How many ghost towns are in Poinsett County?

Poinsett County, Arkansas has 8 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.