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Head

Ghost town · Pulaski County, Arkansas

Cabot quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1941, 1:31,680)
Cabot quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1941, 1:31,680) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Head is a ghost town in Pulaski County, Arkansas. It is one of 11 former communities in Pulaski County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 27th among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Head as a historical populated place on the Cabot 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 34.8820° N, 92.0871° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleCabot
Elevation259 ft
Nearest living townJacksonville, AR
Distance to it2.5 miles
GNIS feature ID67527
Coordinates34.88203, -92.08709

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.

Head today, aerial view
Cabot quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1941, 1:31,680)

Left: Cabot quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1941, 1:31,680), 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

Head is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Jacksonville, AR (population 29,285), about 2.5 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 259 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 Head?

Head is in Pulaski County, Arkansas, at 34.8820, -92.0871.

How many ghost towns are in Pulaski County?

Pulaski 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.