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Willowdale

Ghost town · Pulaski County, Arkansas

Sweet Home quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1935, 1:24,000)
Sweet Home quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1935, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Willowdale is a ghost town in Pulaski County, Arkansas. It is one of 11 former communities in Pulaski County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 27th among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Willowdale as a historical populated place on the Sweet Home 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 34.7279° N, 92.1690° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleSweet Home
Elevation240 ft
Nearest living townCollege Station, AR
Distance to it3.9 miles
GNIS feature ID75609
Coordinates34.72787, -92.16904

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.

Willowdale today, aerial view
Sweet Home quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1935, 1:24,000)

Left: Sweet Home quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1935, 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

Willowdale is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is College Station, AR (population 326), about 3.9 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 240 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 Willowdale?

Willowdale is in Pulaski County, Arkansas, at 34.7279, -92.1690.

How many ghost towns are in Pulaski County?

Pulaski 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.