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Wyandotte

Ghost town · Hot Spring County, Arkansas

Traskwood quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1963, 1:24,000)
Traskwood quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1963, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Wyandotte is a ghost town in Hot Spring County, Arkansas. It is one of 12 former communities in Hot Spring County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 23rd among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Wyandotte as a historical populated place on the Traskwood 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 34.3890° N, 92.7210° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleTraskwood
Elevation289 ft
Nearest living townPerla, AR
Distance to it3.6 miles
GNIS feature ID66148
Coordinates34.38898, -92.72100

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.

Wyandotte today, aerial view
Traskwood quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1963, 1:24,000)

Left: Traskwood quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1963, 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

Wyandotte is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Perla, AR (population 197), about 3.6 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 289 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 Wyandotte?

Wyandotte is in Hot Spring County, Arkansas, at 34.3890, -92.7210.

How many ghost towns are in Hot Spring County?

Hot Spring County, Arkansas has 12 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.