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Woolverton

Ghost town · Conway County, Arkansas

Formosa quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1962, 1:24,000)
Formosa quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1962, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Woolverton is a ghost town in Conway County, Arkansas. It is one of 7 former communities in Conway County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 49th among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Woolverton as a historical populated place on the Formosa 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 35.4429° N, 92.5543° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleFormosa
Elevation993 ft
Nearest living townCenter Ridge, AR
Distance to it4.5 miles
GNIS feature ID66226
Coordinates35.44286, -92.55433

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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.

Woolverton today, aerial view
Formosa quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1962, 1:24,000)

Left: Formosa quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1962, 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

Woolverton is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Center Ridge, AR (population 206), about 4.5 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 993 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 Woolverton?

Woolverton is in Conway County, Arkansas, at 35.4429, -92.5543.

How many ghost towns are in Conway County?

Conway County, Arkansas has 7 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.