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Wells Creek

Ghost town · Newton County, Arkansas

Hasty quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1967, 1:24,000)
Hasty quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1967, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Wells Creek is a ghost town in Newton County, Arkansas. It is one of 6 former communities in Newton County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 53rd among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Wells Creek as a historical populated place on the Hasty 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 36.0412° N, 93.0646° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleHasty
Elevation847 ft
Nearest living townJasper, AR
Distance to it7.2 miles
GNIS feature ID69946
Coordinates36.04119, -93.06462

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.

Wells Creek today, aerial view
Hasty quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1967, 1:24,000)

Left: Hasty quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1967, 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

Wells Creek is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Jasper, AR (population 462), about 7.2 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 847 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 Wells Creek?

Wells Creek is in Newton County, Arkansas, at 36.0412, -93.0646.

How many ghost towns are in Newton County?

Newton 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.