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Canton

Ghost town · Sharp County, Arkansas

Hardy quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1968, 1:24,000)
Hardy quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1968, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Canton is a ghost town in Sharp County, Arkansas. It is one of 11 former communities in Sharp County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 25th among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Canton as a historical populated place on the Hardy 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 36.2826° N, 91.4546° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleHardy
Elevation394 ft
Nearest living townHardy, AR
Distance to it3 miles
GNIS feature ID77332
Coordinates36.28257, -91.45458

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.

Canton today, aerial view
Hardy quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1968, 1:24,000)

Left: Hardy quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1968, 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

Canton is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Hardy, AR (population 853), about 3 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 394 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 Canton?

Canton is in Sharp County, Arkansas, at 36.2826, -91.4546.

How many ghost towns are in Sharp County?

Sharp County, Arkansas has 11 ghost towns on record at Wayfarrow.

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