Hopefield was a small community on the Mississippi River in Crittenden County, Arkansas.
[1] Its location is near or included within the current limits of the city of West Memphis, Arkansas.
[2][3] It was a ferry crossing point to Memphis, Tennessee,[2] and was served by an east-west rail line built by the Memphis and Little Rock Railroad that eventually became a mainline of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway.
[4][5] During the American Civil War General Stephen Hurlbut had the town burned to combat rebel activity.
[2] It was rebuilt, hit by a series of Yellow Fever epidemics, and diminished by erosion.