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Langdon

Ghost town · Cherokee County, Alabama

Milltown quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1969, 1:24,000)
Milltown quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1969, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Langdon is a ghost town in Cherokee County, Alabama. It is one of 13 former communities in Cherokee County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 12th among the 53 Alabama counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Langdon as a historical populated place on the Milltown 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 33.0093° N, 85.4547° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleMilltown
Elevation803 ft
Nearest living townPenton, AL
Distance to it1.2 miles
GNIS feature ID136917
Coordinates33.00929, -85.45467

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.

Langdon today, aerial view
Milltown quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1969, 1:24,000)

Left: Milltown quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1969, 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

Langdon is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Penton, AL (population 128), about 1.2 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 803 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 Langdon?

Langdon is in Cherokee County, Alabama, at 33.0093, -85.4547.

How many ghost towns are in Cherokee County?

Cherokee County, Alabama has 13 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.