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Oregon

Ghost town · Boone County, Arkansas

Bergman quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1967, 1:24,000)
Bergman quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1967, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Oregon is a ghost town in Boone County, Arkansas. It is one of 5 former communities in Boone County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 66th among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Oregon as a historical populated place on the Bergman 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 36.3020° N, 93.0210° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleBergman
Nearest living townBergman, AR
Distance to it0.9 miles
GNIS feature ID69317
Coordinates36.30201, -93.02101

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.

Oregon today, aerial view
Bergman quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1967, 1:24,000)

Left: Bergman quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1967, 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

Oregon is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Bergman, AR (population 582), about 0.9 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 Oregon?

Oregon is in Boone County, Arkansas, at 36.3020, -93.0210.

How many ghost towns are in Boone County?

Boone County, Arkansas has 5 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.