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Red Hill

Ghost town · Sevier County, Arkansas

Geneva quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1966, 1:24,000)
Geneva quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1966, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Red Hill is a ghost town in Sevier County, Arkansas. It is one of 7 former communities in Sevier County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 45th among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Red Hill as a historical populated place on the Geneva 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 34.1234° N, 94.2183° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleGeneva
Elevation464 ft
Nearest living townGillham, AR
Distance to it6.3 miles
GNIS feature ID67354
Coordinates34.12345, -94.21826

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.

Red Hill today, aerial view
Geneva quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1966, 1:24,000)

Left: Geneva quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1966, 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

Red Hill is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Gillham, AR (population 190), about 6.3 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 464 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 Red Hill?

Red Hill is in Sevier County, Arkansas, at 34.1234, -94.2183.

How many ghost towns are in Sevier County?

Sevier 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.