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Penters Bluff

Ghost town · Izard County, Arkansas

Bethesda quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1942, 1:31,680)
Bethesda quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1942, 1:31,680) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Penters Bluff is a ghost town in Izard County, Arkansas. It is one of 7 former communities in Izard County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 46th among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Penters Bluff as a historical populated place on the Bethesda 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 35.8692° N, 91.8485° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleBethesda
Elevation303 ft
Nearest living townCushman, AR
Distance to it3.9 miles
GNIS feature ID81567
Coordinates35.86924, -91.84848

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.

Penters Bluff today, aerial view
Bethesda quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1942, 1:31,680)

Left: Bethesda quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1942, 1:31,680), 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

Penters Bluff is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Cushman, AR (population 456), about 3.9 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 303 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 Penters Bluff?

Penters Bluff is in Izard County, Arkansas, at 35.8692, -91.8485.

How many ghost towns are in Izard County?

Izard County, Arkansas has 7 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.