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Doyleville

Ghost town · White County, Arkansas

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

Doyleville is a ghost town in White County, Arkansas. It is one of 19 former communities in White County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 7th among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Doyleville as a historical populated place on the Steprock 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 35.4745° N, 91.7488° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleSteprock
Elevation586 ft
Nearest living townPangburn, AR
Distance to it6.1 miles
GNIS feature ID65059
Coordinates35.47452, -91.74875

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.

Doyleville today, aerial view
Bald Knob quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1935, 1:62,500)

Left: Bald Knob 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

Doyleville is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Pangburn, AR (population 515), about 6.1 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 586 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 Doyleville?

Doyleville is in White County, Arkansas, at 35.4745, -91.7488.

How many ghost towns are in White County?

White 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.