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Oakwood

Ghost town · Garland County, Arkansas

Fannie quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1962, 1:24,000)
Fannie quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1962, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Oakwood is a ghost town in Garland County, Arkansas. It is one of 13 former communities in Garland County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 20th among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Oakwood as a historical populated place on the Fannie 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 34.7109° N, 93.3932° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleFannie
Elevation745 ft
Nearest living townCrystal Springs, AR
Distance to it13.3 miles
GNIS feature ID64340
Coordinates34.71093, -93.39324

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.

Oakwood today, aerial view
Fannie quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1962, 1:24,000)

Left: Fannie quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1962, 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

Oakwood is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Crystal Springs, AR (population 302), about 13.3 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 745 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 Oakwood?

Oakwood is in Garland County, Arkansas, at 34.7109, -93.3932.

How many ghost towns are in Garland County?

Garland County, Arkansas has 13 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.