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Midway

Ghost town · Howard County, Arkansas

Umpire quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1959, 1:62,500)
Umpire quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1959, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Midway is a ghost town in Howard County, Arkansas. It is one of 34 former communities in Howard County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 2nd among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Midway as a historical populated place on the Umpire 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 34.3237° N, 94.0249° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleUmpire
Nearest living townNewhope, AR
Distance to it11 miles
GNIS feature ID62616
Coordinates34.32372, -94.02492

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.

Midway today, aerial view
Umpire quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1959, 1:62,500)

Left: Umpire quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1959, 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

Midway is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Newhope, AR (population 296), about 11 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 Midway?

Midway is in Howard County, Arkansas, at 34.3237, -94.0249.

How many ghost towns are in Howard County?

Howard County, Arkansas has 34 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.