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Willard

Ghost town · Prairie County, Arkansas

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

Willard is a ghost town in Prairie County, Arkansas. It is one of 19 former communities in Prairie County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 6th among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Willard as a historical populated place on the Jasmine 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 35.0476° N, 91.5685° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleJasmine
Elevation195 ft
Nearest living townDes Arc, AR
Distance to it5.9 miles
GNIS feature ID60068
Coordinates35.04759, -91.56847

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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.

Willard today, aerial view
Kensett quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1932, 1:62,500)

Left: Kensett 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

Willard is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Des Arc, AR (population 1,447), about 5.9 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 195 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 Willard?

Willard is in Prairie County, Arkansas, at 35.0476, -91.5685.

How many ghost towns are in Prairie County?

Prairie County, Arkansas has 19 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.