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Scaife

Ghost town · Chicot County, Arkansas

Readland quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1939, 1:62,500)
Readland quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1939, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Scaife is a ghost town in Chicot County, Arkansas. It is one of 11 former communities in Chicot County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 24th among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Scaife as a historical populated place on the Eminence 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 33.1485° N, 91.1907° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleEminence
Elevation130 ft
Nearest living townEudora, AR
Distance to it4.7 miles
GNIS feature ID61760
Coordinates33.14845, -91.19067

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.

Scaife today, aerial view
Readland quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1939, 1:62,500)

Left: Readland quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1939, 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

Scaife is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Eudora, AR (population 1,843), about 4.7 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 130 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 Scaife?

Scaife is in Chicot County, Arkansas, at 33.1485, -91.1907.

How many ghost towns are in Chicot County?

Chicot County, Arkansas has 11 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.