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Hopewell

Ghost town · Pike County, Arkansas

Delight quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1970, 1:24,000)
Delight quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1970, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Hopewell is a ghost town in Pike County, Arkansas, recorded as human settlement in Arkansas, United States of America. It is one of 23 former communities in Pike County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 3rd among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Hopewell as a historical populated place on the Delight 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 34.0637° N, 93.5435° W.

In old newspapers

The earliest digitized newspaper pages printed in Arkansas before 1931 that mention “Hopewell”, from the Library of Congress. A page may use the name for something else; open it to read the context. 1,009 pages in all.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleDelight
Nearest living townDelight, AR
Distance to it3.2 miles
GNIS feature ID64618
Coordinates34.06372, -93.54352

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.

Hopewell today, aerial view
Delight quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1970, 1:24,000)

Left: Delight quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1970, 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

Hopewell is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Delight, AR (population 316), about 3.2 miles away in a straight line. 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 Hopewell?

Hopewell is in Pike County, Arkansas, at 34.0637, -93.5435.

How many ghost towns are in Pike County?

Pike County, Arkansas has 23 ghost towns on record at Wayfarrow.

Sources and licences

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.