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Sub Rosa

Ghost town · Franklin County, Arkansas

Magazine Mountain #2 quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1887, 1:62,500)
Magazine Mountain #2 quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1887, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Sub Rosa is a ghost town in Franklin County, Arkansas. It is one of 10 former communities in Franklin County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 33rd among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Sub Rosa as a historical populated place on the Cecil 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 35.3918° N, 93.9466° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleCecil
Nearest living townBranch, AR
Distance to it5.8 miles
GNIS feature ID63037
Coordinates35.39175, -93.94659

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.

Sub Rosa today, aerial view
Magazine Mountain #2 quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1887, 1:62,500)

Left: Magazine Mountain #2 quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1887, 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

Sub Rosa is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Branch, AR (population 335), about 5.8 miles away in a straight line. 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 Sub Rosa?

Sub Rosa is in Franklin County, Arkansas, at 35.3918, -93.9466.

How many ghost towns are in Franklin County?

Franklin 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.