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Hillside

Ghost town · Greene County, Arkansas

Gainesville quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1940, 1:62,500)
Gainesville quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1940, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Hillside is a ghost town in Greene County, Arkansas. It is one of 5 former communities in Greene County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 61st among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Hillside as a historical populated place on the Lafe 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 36.1834° N, 90.5143° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleLafe
Elevation374 ft
Nearest living townLafe, AR
Distance to it1.9 miles
GNIS feature ID64813
Coordinates36.18340, -90.51427

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.

Hillside today, aerial view
Gainesville quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1940, 1:62,500)

Left: Gainesville quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1940, 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

Hillside is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Lafe, AR (population 433), about 1.9 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 374 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 Hillside?

Hillside is in Greene County, Arkansas, at 36.1834, -90.5143.

How many ghost towns are in Greene County?

Greene County, Arkansas has 5 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.