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Sellmeyer

Ghost town · Clay County, Arkansas

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

Sellmeyer is a ghost town in Clay County, Arkansas. It is one of 5 former communities in Clay County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 64th among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Sellmeyer as a historical populated place on the Knobel 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 36.2903° N, 90.5871° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleKnobel
Elevation279 ft
Nearest living townKnobel, AR
Distance to it2.2 miles
GNIS feature ID62514
Coordinates36.29034, -90.58705

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.

Sellmeyer today, aerial view
Knobel quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1935, 1:62,500)

Left: Knobel 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

Sellmeyer is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Knobel, AR (population 177), about 2.2 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 279 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 Sellmeyer?

Sellmeyer is in Clay County, Arkansas, at 36.2903, -90.5871.

How many ghost towns are in Clay County?

Clay County, Arkansas has 5 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.