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New Hope

Ghost town · Phillips County, Arkansas

Mellwood quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1930, 1:62,500)
Mellwood quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1930, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

New Hope is a ghost town in Phillips County, Arkansas. It is one of 6 former communities in Phillips County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 55th among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists New Hope as a historical populated place on the Mellwood 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 34.1829° N, 90.9218° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleMellwood
Elevation162 ft
Nearest living townRena Lara, MS
Distance to it8.6 miles
GNIS feature ID70125
Coordinates34.18288, -90.92178

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.

New Hope today, aerial view
Mellwood quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1930, 1:62,500)

Left: Mellwood quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1930, 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

New Hope is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Rena Lara, MS (population 106), about 8.6 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 162 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 New Hope?

New Hope is in Phillips County, Arkansas, at 34.1829, -90.9218.

How many ghost towns are in Phillips County?

Phillips 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.