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Orchard

Ghost town · Perry County, Arkansas

Martindale quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1963, 1:24,000)
Martindale quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1963, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Orchard is a ghost town in Perry County, Arkansas. It is one of 8 former communities in Perry County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 41st among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Orchard as a historical populated place on the Martindale 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 34.9320° N, 92.6771° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleMartindale
Elevation789 ft
Nearest living townBigelow, AR
Distance to it5.2 miles
GNIS feature ID65242
Coordinates34.93203, -92.67711

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.

Orchard today, aerial view
Martindale quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1963, 1:24,000)

Left: Martindale quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1963, 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

Orchard is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Bigelow, AR (population 527), about 5.2 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 789 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 Orchard?

Orchard is in Perry County, Arkansas, at 34.9320, -92.6771.

How many ghost towns are in Perry County?

Perry 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.