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Dale

Ghost town · Johnson County, Arkansas

Batson quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1906, 1:62,500)
Batson quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1906, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Dale is a ghost town in Johnson County, Arkansas. It is one of 6 former communities in Johnson County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 56th among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Dale as a historical populated place on the Harmony 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 35.6165° N, 93.5507° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleHarmony
Elevation2,066 ft
Nearest living townOark, AR
Distance to it5.6 miles
GNIS feature ID65140
Coordinates35.61647, -93.55074

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.

Dale today, aerial view
Batson quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1906, 1:62,500)

Left: Batson quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1906, 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

Dale is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Oark, AR (population 16), about 5.6 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 2,066 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 Dale?

Dale is in Johnson County, Arkansas, at 35.6165, -93.5507.

How many ghost towns are in Johnson County?

Johnson 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.