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Gate

Ghost town · Scott County, Arkansas

Acorn quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1958, 1:24,000)
Acorn quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1958, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Gate is a ghost town in Scott County, Arkansas. It is one of 11 former communities in Scott County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 29th among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Gate as a historical populated place on the Acorn 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 34.7165° N, 94.1674° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleAcorn
Elevation927 ft
Nearest living townAcorn, AR
Distance to it5.7 miles
GNIS feature ID66287
Coordinates34.71649, -94.16743

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.

Gate today, aerial view
Acorn quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1958, 1:24,000)

Left: Acorn quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1958, 1:24,000), 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

Gate is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Acorn, AR (population 115), about 5.7 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 927 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 Gate?

Gate is in Scott County, Arkansas, at 34.7165, -94.1674.

How many ghost towns are in Scott County?

Scott County, Arkansas has 11 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.