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Parma

Ghost town · Desha County, Arkansas

Rotan quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1935, 1:62,500)
Rotan quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1935, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Parma is a ghost town in Desha County, Arkansas. It is one of 10 former communities in Desha County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 36th among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Parma as a historical populated place on the Gould 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 33.9654° N, 91.5460° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleGould
Elevation164 ft
Nearest living townGould, AR
Distance to it1.8 miles
GNIS feature ID63790
Coordinates33.96538, -91.54596

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.

Parma today, aerial view
Rotan quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1935, 1:62,500)

Left: Rotan quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1935, 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

Parma is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Gould, AR (population 513), about 1.8 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 164 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 Parma?

Parma is in Desha County, Arkansas, at 33.9654, -91.5460.

How many ghost towns are in Desha County?

Desha County, Arkansas has 10 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.