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Shonyo

Ghost town · Mississippi County, Arkansas

Manila quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1941, 1:62,500)
Manila quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1941, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Shonyo is a ghost town in Mississippi County, Arkansas. It is one of 10 former communities in Mississippi County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 37th among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Shonyo as a historical populated place on the Dell 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 35.8470° N, 90.0743° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleDell
Elevation241 ft
Nearest living townDell, AR
Distance to it2.4 miles
GNIS feature ID70094
Coordinates35.84702, -90.07426

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.

Shonyo today, aerial view
Manila quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1941, 1:62,500)

Left: Manila quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1941, 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

Shonyo is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Dell, AR (population 188), about 2.4 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 241 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 Shonyo?

Shonyo is in Mississippi County, Arkansas, at 35.8470, -90.0743.

How many ghost towns are in Mississippi County?

Mississippi County, Arkansas has 10 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.