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Wona

Ghost town · Miller County, Arkansas

Mandeville quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1952, 1:24,000)
Mandeville quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1952, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Wona is a ghost town in Miller County, Arkansas. It is one of 5 former communities in Miller County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 58th among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Wona as a historical populated place on the Mandeville 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 33.3912° N, 93.9596° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleMandeville
Elevation412 ft
Nearest living townTexarkana, AR
Distance to it3.5 miles
GNIS feature ID63130
Coordinates33.39124, -93.95963

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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.

Wona today, aerial view
Mandeville quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1952, 1:24,000)

Left: Mandeville quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1952, 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

Wona is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Texarkana, AR (population 29,343), about 3.5 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 412 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 Wona?

Wona is in Miller County, Arkansas, at 33.3912, -93.9596.

How many ghost towns are in Miller County?

Miller County, Arkansas has 5 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.