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Mante

Ghost town · Madison County, Arkansas

Hartwell quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1973, 1:24,000)
Hartwell quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1973, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Mante is a ghost town in Madison County, Arkansas. It is one of 6 former communities in Madison County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 57th among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Mante as a historical populated place on the Hartwell 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 36.0842° N, 93.8113° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleHartwell
Elevation1,638 ft
Nearest living townHuntsville, AR
Distance to it4.5 miles
GNIS feature ID66405
Coordinates36.08424, -93.81131

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.

Mante today, aerial view
Hartwell quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1973, 1:24,000)

Left: Hartwell quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1973, 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

Mante is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Huntsville, AR (population 3,086), about 4.5 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 1,638 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 Mante?

Mante is in Madison County, Arkansas, at 36.0842, -93.8113.

How many ghost towns are in Madison County?

Madison County, Arkansas has 6 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.