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Obear

Ghost town · Craighead County, Arkansas

Weiner quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1939, 1:62,500)
Weiner quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1939, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Obear is a ghost town in Craighead County, Arkansas. It is one of 14 former communities in Craighead County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 17th among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Obear as a historical populated place on the Otwell 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 35.7151° N, 90.8434° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleOtwell
Elevation250 ft
Nearest living townWeiner, AR
Distance to it7.4 miles
GNIS feature ID78944
Coordinates35.71508, -90.84345

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.

Obear today, aerial view
Weiner quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1939, 1:62,500)

Left: Weiner quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1939, 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

Obear is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Weiner, AR (population 675), about 7.4 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 250 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 Obear?

Obear is in Craighead County, Arkansas, at 35.7151, -90.8434.

How many ghost towns are in Craighead County?

Craighead County, Arkansas has 14 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.