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Simco

Ghost town · Sharp County, Arkansas

Strawberry quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1932, 1:62,500)
Strawberry quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1932, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Simco is a ghost town in Sharp County, Arkansas. It is one of 11 former communities in Sharp County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 25th among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Simco as a historical populated place on the Grange 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 35.9209° N, 91.3837° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleGrange
Elevation355 ft
Nearest living townStrawberry, AR
Distance to it4.7 miles
GNIS feature ID66172
Coordinates35.92091, -91.38374

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.

Simco today, aerial view
Strawberry quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1932, 1:62,500)

Left: Strawberry quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1932, 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

Simco is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Strawberry, AR (population 311), about 4.7 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 355 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 Simco?

Simco is in Sharp County, Arkansas, at 35.9209, -91.3837.

How many ghost towns are in Sharp County?

Sharp 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.