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Sandtown

Ghost town · Conway County, Arkansas

Houston quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1961, 1:24,000)
Houston quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1961, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Sandtown is a ghost town in Conway County, Arkansas. It is one of 7 former communities in Conway County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 49th among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Sandtown as a historical populated place on the Houston 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 35.0898° N, 92.7113° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleHouston
Elevation293 ft
Nearest living townOppelo, AR
Distance to it3.6 miles
GNIS feature ID66219
Coordinates35.08981, -92.71128

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.

Sandtown today, aerial view
Houston quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1961, 1:24,000)

Left: Houston quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1961, 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

Sandtown is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Oppelo, AR (population 1,033), about 3.6 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 293 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 Sandtown?

Sandtown is in Conway County, Arkansas, at 35.0898, -92.7113.

How many ghost towns are in Conway County?

Conway 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.