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Merced

Ghost town · Poinsett County, Arkansas

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

Merced is a ghost town in Poinsett County, Arkansas. It is one of 8 former communities in Poinsett County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 40th among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Merced as a historical populated place on the Trumann 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 35.6640° N, 90.5537° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleTrumann
Elevation222 ft
Nearest living townTrumann, AR
Distance to it1.8 miles
GNIS feature ID82835
Coordinates35.66397, -90.55372

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.

Merced today, aerial view
Dee quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1940, 1:62,500)

Left: Dee 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

Merced is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Trumann, AR (population 7,432), about 1.8 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 222 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 Merced?

Merced is in Poinsett County, Arkansas, at 35.6640, -90.5537.

How many ghost towns are in Poinsett County?

Poinsett County, Arkansas has 8 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.