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Venquin

Ghost town · Madison County, Arkansas

Witter quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1973, 1:24,000)
Witter quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1973, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Venquin is a ghost town in Madison County, Arkansas. It is one of 6 former communities in Madison County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 57th among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Venquin as a historical populated place on the Witter 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 35.9515° N, 93.7460° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleWitter
Elevation1,524 ft
Nearest living townSt. Paul, AR
Distance to it8.7 miles
GNIS feature ID66416
Coordinates35.95147, -93.74603

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.

Venquin today, aerial view
Witter quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1973, 1:24,000)

Left: Witter quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1973, 1:24,000), 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

Venquin is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is St. Paul, AR (population 80), about 8.7 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 1,524 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 Venquin?

Venquin is in Madison County, Arkansas, at 35.9515, -93.7460.

How many ghost towns are in Madison County?

Madison County, Arkansas has 6 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.